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In the recent decades, the changing scene of social affairs, including the increasing emergence of markets and networks that in many cases substituted hierarchical institutions, such as states and governments, has led to increasing theoretical focus on governance as the process rather than government as the institution. The concept of governance recognizes all the role-players in managing social affairs, including governments, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental and civil society actors. In the global scene, the concept of global governance has replaced the older concepts such as international relations or world order. Health-related affairs, also, have been a subject of global health governance at the global scale. The ethical principles that are relevant to global health governance are broader than the traditional sets of beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for autonomy, and justice. They include other principles such as equality, justice, and equity, respect for cultural diversity and pluralism, solidarity and cooperation, social responsibility and health, and sharing of benefits. The main challenges of global health governance, such as double standards, bilateralism, and exploitive research, can be theoretically and practically explored and solved with adherence to this more inclusive and comprehensive ethical perspective.
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Aramesh, K. (2015). Governance. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_217-1
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