Health Summits in Global Health Governance

Zhang Yanan, Ma Mengdi, Xie Qian, Chen Xuyu and Tan Xiaodong*

Received: November 06, 2018;   Published: December 13, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.12.002202

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Abstract

Global health governance is accompanied by the formation of global health networks and global health regimes that shaping the way the problem and solutions understood and convincing governments, international organizations and other global actors to address these issues. Health summit refers to international conference attended by the top leaders of all countries, which involving multinational or multilateral health issues involving the highest leaders of all countries and expected to reach certain consensus or certain common programmatic documents. Health summits functions as [1] provides a coordination platform for sharing understanding of health issues between multiple governance bodies and governance mechanisms, [2] its participants play a leading role that ensures the political coalition and formation of issues’ policy. As health summits is critical for global health governance, we advocate that more attention should be paid on health summits when dealing with global health issues.