Towards a Global Social Support System: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Martin McKee; Gorik Ooms; David Stuckler; Sanjay Basu

doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2016.18

International Journal of Health Policy and Management (May 2016)

Towards a Global Social Support System: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Martin McKee ,
Gorik Ooms,
David Stuckler,
Sanjay Basu

Affiliations

Martin McKee: Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Gorik Ooms: Protection International, Brussels, Belgium
David Stuckler: European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Department of Sociology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Sanjay Basu: School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2016.18
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 5
pp. 345 – 346

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When we invoked the example of the US National Basketball Association’s (NBA’s) scheme for redistribution of new talent as a model offering lessons for a possible future global social support system we hoped that we would stimulate debate. Consequently, we are very grateful to Goldblatt1 and Labonté2 for their insightful commentaries that explore some of the issues that arise from our suggestion

Published in International Journal of Health Policy and Management

ISSN: 2322-5939 (Online)
Publisher: Kerman University of Medical Sciences
Country of publisher: Iran, Islamic Republic of
LCC subjects: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Website: https://www.ijhpm.com

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