Eduardo J Gómez
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 786679 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eduardo J Gómez |
| PRENOMES | Eduardo J |
| SOBRENOME | Gómez |
| ASSINATURA | GÓMEZ E J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5053-5087 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Unpacking the commercial determinants of health
Qualitative methods and the commercial determinants of health
While the commercial determinants of health (CDoH) is a growing field of study, insufficient attention has been paid to developing its qualitative methodological and theoretical contributions. CDoH researchers may benefit from considering the social science community's usage of qualitative methodological tools such as case studies for theory development, causal mechanisms and process-tracing for improved causal inference. While CDoH researchers h…
Institutions, crisis and type 2 diabetes policy in Venezuela
In a context of economic, political and humanitarian crisis, ensuring effective type 2 diabetes self-care management services in Venezuela has been an ongoing public health challenge. Repeated shortfalls in access to medicine, healthcare workers and food scarcity have hampered the ability of patients with diabetes to effectively manage their condition and receive the healthcare support that they deserve. With respect to methodology, the author re…
Launching a new series on non-communicable prevention in humanitarian settings
Enhancing our understanding of the commercial determinants of health
The politics of ultra-processed foods and beverages regulatory policy in upper-middle-income countries
Addressing the politics of corporate political activity and policy interference in response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a new area of scholarly research. The objective of this article is to explain how, in Mexico and Brazil, the ultra-processed foods and beverages industry succeeded in creating the political and social conditions conducive for their on-going regulatory policy influence and manipulation of scientific research. In additi…
Getting to the root of the problem
In response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Latin America, governments have introduced impressive prevention programmes However, the purpose of this article is to better explain why several governments have yet to address arguably the ‘root of the problem’: i.e. implementing effective regulatory policies restricting the food industries’ ability to market and sale their products. Introducing a political science analytical framework merging …
Integrating Social Determinants in Decision-Making Processes for Health
Improving Decision-Making for Population Health in Nonhealth Sectors in Urban Environments
Institutions, Policy, and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Latin America
Research has underscored the agenda-setting and policy implementation advantages associated with the concentration of political and policy-making authority. But to what extent does this concentration of authority within health policy-making institutions determine the early timing and depth of non-communicable disease (NCD) policies? Are other factors within and outside of government more important? Comparing one Latin American country exhibiting …
The international and domestic politics of type 2 diabetes policy reform in Brazil
Introduction Understanding the international and domestic political factors influencing the evolution of type 2 diabetes policies and primary care institutions is a new area of scholarly research. This article contributes to this area of inquiry by illustrating how a government’s shifting foreign policy aspirations, that is, to establish the government’s reputation as an internationally recognised leader in type 2 diabetes policy , and presidenti…
Explaining Russia’s Struggle to Eradicate HIV/Aids
One of Russia’s ongoing public health challenges is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Using qualitative methods focused on elite interviews and document analysis, the article argues that despite widespread recognition of this problem, there is still no strong political commitment to eradicating AIDS. Theoretically, John Kingdon’s “multiple streams” agenda-setting framework is applied and critiqued. It was found that in the absence of a convergence of Kingdo…
Coca-Cola’s political and policy influence in Mexico
In response to Mexico’s burgeoning industrial epidemics of obesity and type-2 diabetes, triggered in part by sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages’ ability to readily market their products and influence consumption, the government has responded through a variety of non-communicable disease (NCD) policies. Nevertheless, major industries, such as Coca-Cola, have been able to continuously obstruct the prioritization of those policies targeting the co…
Civil society in global health policymaking
I conclude by encouraging scholars to address these lacuna in the literature and to explore the utility of political science theory and alternative policymaking models to better define and explain the complexity of civil society's role and influence in global health policymaking processes
Political repression, civil society and the politics of responding to Aids in the BRICS nations
The policy responses to human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) nations have played out amid radically different political environments that have shaped state-civil society relations in critical ways. In contrasting these different environments, this article offers the first comparison of the policy response to AIDS in the BRICS nations and seeks to under…
Brazilian Foreign Policy in Health During Dilma Rousseff's Administration (2011-2014)
This article analyses changes and continuities in Brazilian international actions in the field of public health, aiming at understanding how the Brazilian foreign policy in health during President Dilma Rousseff's first term (2011-2014) was developed. Available data from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) years and Dilma's first term were used for comparative purposes. Emphasis was given on South-South cooperation projects, more spec…
Understanding the United States and Brazil’s response to obesity
BACKGROUND: In the United States (US) and Brazil, obesity has emerged as a health epidemic. This article is driven by the following research questions: how did the US and Brazil's federal institutions respond to obesity? And how did these responses affect policy implementation? The aim of this article is therefore to conduct a comparative case study analysis of how these nations' institutions responded in order to determine the key lessons learne…
Crafting Aids policy in Brazil and Russia
During the 1990s, Brazil and Russia diverged in their policy response to AIDS. This is puzzling considering that both nations were globally integrated emerging economies transitioning to democracy. This article examines to what extent international pressures and partnerships with multilateral donors motivated these governments to increase and sustain federal spending and policy reforms. Contrary to this literature, the cases of Brazil and Russia …
Understanding the BRIC response to Aids
The BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have differed in their government response to health epidemics. It is argued that Brazil eventually outpaced her emerging counterparts in response to AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) due to the presence of political institutional, civil societal, and foreign policy strategies that both sustained and encouraged the introduction of innovative policies. The concept of historical policy ba…
Proposing a sequential comparative analysis for assessing multilateral health agency transformation and sustainable capacity
BACKGROUND: This article proposes an approach to comparing and assessing the adaptive capacity of multilateral health agencies in meeting country and individual healthcare needs. Most studies comparing multilateral health agencies have failed to clearly propose a method for conducting agency comparisons. METHODS: This study conducted a qualitative case study methodological approach, such that secondary and primary case study literature was used t…
Global health in foreign policy--and foreign policy in health? Evidence from the BRICS
Amidst the growing literature on global health, much has been written recently about the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) countries and their involvement and potential impact in global health, particularly in relation to development assistance. Rather less has been said about countries' motivations for involvement in global health negotiations, and there is a notable absence of evidence when their motivations are speculated on. …
What Reverses Decentralization? Failed Policy Implementation, Civic Supporters, or Central Bureaucrats’ Expertise? The Case of Brazil’s Aids Program
This article argues that Brazil’s success in responding to the AIDS epidemic rested in the government’s pursuit of a reversal of decentralization, which entailed the government’s delegation of policy-making autonomy, funding, and discretionary fiscal transfers to the national AIDS program. AIDS bureaucrats achieved this by establishing close partnerships with social health movements and AIDS nongovernmental organizations advocating policy ideas w…
Emergence of multilateral proto-institutions in global health and new approaches to governance
The role of multilateral donor agencies in global health is a new area of research, with limited research on how these agencies differ in terms of their governance arrangements, especially in relation to transparency, inclusiveness, accountability, and responsiveness to civil society. We argue that historical analysis of the origins of these agencies and their coalition formation processes can help to explain these differences. We propose an anal…
The effects of Global Fund financing on health governance in Brazil
OBJECTIVES: The impact of donors, such as national government (bi-lateral), private sector, and individual financial (philanthropic) contributions, on domestic health policies of developing nations has been the subject of scholarly discourse. Little is known, however, about the impact of global financial initiatives, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, on policies and health governance of countries receiving funding …
Pandemics and Peace
Centralizing Decentralized Governance in Brazil
Contrary to the once-popular notion of the central bureaucracy withering away as an outcome of decentralization, scholars have shown that in cases of local policy success, national bureaucrats have instead redefined their roles, strengthening their focus on monitoring and accountability. Yet building national capacity for effective oversight presents a challenge within a context of strong subnational autonomy such as Brazil. Comparing the dynamic…
Enhancing our understanding of the commercial determinants of health
Coca-Cola’s political and policy influence in Mexico
In response to Mexico’s burgeoning industrial epidemics of obesity and type-2 diabetes, triggered in part by sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages’ ability to readily market their products and influence consumption, the government has responded through a variety of non-communicable disease (NCD) policies. Nevertheless, major industries, such as Coca-Cola, have been able to continuously obstruct the prioritization of those policies targeting the co…
Brazilian Foreign Policy in Health During Dilma Rousseff's Administration (2011-2014)
This article analyses changes and continuities in Brazilian international actions in the field of public health, aiming at understanding how the Brazilian foreign policy in health during President Dilma Rousseff's first term (2011-2014) was developed. Available data from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) years and Dilma's first term were used for comparative purposes. Emphasis was given on South-South cooperation projects, more spec…
Health Financing in Brazil, Russia and India
In this paper we examine whether Brazil, Russia and India have similar financing patterns to those observed globally. We assess how national health allocations compare with epidemiological estimates for burden of disease. We identify the major causes of burden of disease in each country, as well as the contribution HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria make to the total burden of disease estimates. We then use budgetary allocation information to ass…
Explaining Russia’s Struggle to Eradicate HIV/Aids
One of Russia’s ongoing public health challenges is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Using qualitative methods focused on elite interviews and document analysis, the article argues that despite widespread recognition of this problem, there is still no strong political commitment to eradicating AIDS. Theoretically, John Kingdon’s “multiple streams” agenda-setting framework is applied and critiqued. It was found that in the absence of a convergence of Kingdo…
Political repression, civil society and the politics of responding to Aids in the BRICS nations
The policy responses to human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) nations have played out amid radically different political environments that have shaped state-civil society relations in critical ways. In contrasting these different environments, this article offers the first comparison of the policy response to AIDS in the BRICS nations and seeks to under…
What the United States can learn from Brazil in response to HIV/Aids
Contrary to what many may expect, this article argues that Brazil did a better job than the USA when it came to responding to HIV/AIDS. Because of the Brazilian government's concern about its international reputation and the partnerships it has forged with international donors and civil society, the government has been committed to strengthening decentralization processes by introducing both formal and informal re-centralization measures that str…
Global health in foreign policy--and foreign policy in health? Evidence from the BRICS
Amidst the growing literature on global health, much has been written recently about the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) countries and their involvement and potential impact in global health, particularly in relation to development assistance. Rather less has been said about countries' motivations for involvement in global health negotiations, and there is a notable absence of evidence when their motivations are speculated on. …
Pursuing Centralization amidst Decentralization
In recent years, Brazil has been highly revered for its response to HIV/AIDS. Despite the government's delayed response, why and how did the national AIDS program eventually become so successful? This is even further puzzling when one considers the challenges associated with Brazil's decentralized response to healthcare needs, lack of subnational resources and political will to effectively implement AIDS policy. This article maintains that Brazil…
Decentralization and municipal governance
Decentralization and municipal governance
The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies
What the United States can learn from Brazil in response to HIV/Aids
Contrary to what many may expect, this article argues that Brazil did a better job than the USA when it came to responding to HIV/AIDS. Because of the Brazilian government's concern about its international reputation and the partnerships it has forged with international donors and civil society, the government has been committed to strengthening decentralization processes by introducing both formal and informal re-centralization measures that str…
Ethnicity and the Politics of Aids
Evan Lieberman's Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to Aids proceeds from a simple question of great importance to millions of people: “Why have some governments responded to AIDS more quickly and more broadly than others?” In answering this question, Lieberman employs a range of methods and engages a range of scholarly literatures dealing with health policy, comparative public policy, and ethnic politic…
Health Financing in Brazil, Russia and India
In this paper we examine whether Brazil, Russia and India have similar financing patterns to those observed globally. We assess how national health allocations compare with epidemiological estimates for burden of disease. We identify the major causes of burden of disease in each country, as well as the contribution HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria make to the total burden of disease estimates. We then use budgetary allocation information to ass…
Pursuing Centralization amidst Decentralization
In recent years, Brazil has been highly revered for its response to HIV/AIDS. Despite the government's delayed response, why and how did the national AIDS program eventually become so successful? This is even further puzzling when one considers the challenges associated with Brazil's decentralized response to healthcare needs, lack of subnational resources and political will to effectively implement AIDS policy. This article maintains that Brazil…
The effects of Global Fund financing on health governance in Brazil
OBJECTIVES: The impact of donors, such as national government (bi-lateral), private sector, and individual financial (philanthropic) contributions, on domestic health policies of developing nations has been the subject of scholarly discourse. Little is known, however, about the impact of global financial initiatives, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, on policies and health governance of countries receiving funding …
Pandemics and Peace
Centralizing Decentralized Governance in Brazil
Contrary to the once-popular notion of the central bureaucracy withering away as an outcome of decentralization, scholars have shown that in cases of local policy success, national bureaucrats have instead redefined their roles, strengthening their focus on monitoring and accountability. Yet building national capacity for effective oversight presents a challenge within a context of strong subnational autonomy such as Brazil. Comparing the dynamic…
Emergence of multilateral proto-institutions in global health and new approaches to governance
The role of multilateral donor agencies in global health is a new area of research, with limited research on how these agencies differ in terms of their governance arrangements, especially in relation to transparency, inclusiveness, accountability, and responsiveness to civil society. We argue that historical analysis of the origins of these agencies and their coalition formation processes can help to explain these differences. We propose an anal…
Proposing a sequential comparative analysis for assessing multilateral health agency transformation and sustainable capacity
BACKGROUND: This article proposes an approach to comparing and assessing the adaptive capacity of multilateral health agencies in meeting country and individual healthcare needs. Most studies comparing multilateral health agencies have failed to clearly propose a method for conducting agency comparisons. METHODS: This study conducted a qualitative case study methodological approach, such that secondary and primary case study literature was used t…
Global health in foreign policy--and foreign policy in health? Evidence from the BRICS
Amidst the growing literature on global health, much has been written recently about the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) countries and their involvement and potential impact in global health, particularly in relation to development assistance. Rather less has been said about countries' motivations for involvement in global health negotiations, and there is a notable absence of evidence when their motivations are speculated on. …
What Reverses Decentralization? Failed Policy Implementation, Civic Supporters, or Central Bureaucrats’ Expertise? The Case of Brazil’s Aids Program
This article argues that Brazil’s success in responding to the AIDS epidemic rested in the government’s pursuit of a reversal of decentralization, which entailed the government’s delegation of policy-making autonomy, funding, and discretionary fiscal transfers to the national AIDS program. AIDS bureaucrats achieved this by establishing close partnerships with social health movements and AIDS nongovernmental organizations advocating policy ideas w…
Understanding the United States and Brazil’s response to obesity
BACKGROUND: In the United States (US) and Brazil, obesity has emerged as a health epidemic. This article is driven by the following research questions: how did the US and Brazil's federal institutions respond to obesity? And how did these responses affect policy implementation? The aim of this article is therefore to conduct a comparative case study analysis of how these nations' institutions responded in order to determine the key lessons learne…
Crafting Aids policy in Brazil and Russia
During the 1990s, Brazil and Russia diverged in their policy response to AIDS. This is puzzling considering that both nations were globally integrated emerging economies transitioning to democracy. This article examines to what extent international pressures and partnerships with multilateral donors motivated these governments to increase and sustain federal spending and policy reforms. Contrary to this literature, the cases of Brazil and Russia …
Understanding the BRIC response to Aids
The BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have differed in their government response to health epidemics. It is argued that Brazil eventually outpaced her emerging counterparts in response to AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) due to the presence of political institutional, civil societal, and foreign policy strategies that both sustained and encouraged the introduction of innovative policies. The concept of historical policy ba…
Political repression, civil society and the politics of responding to Aids in the BRICS nations
The policy responses to human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) nations have played out amid radically different political environments that have shaped state-civil society relations in critical ways. In contrasting these different environments, this article offers the first comparison of the policy response to AIDS in the BRICS nations and seeks to under…
Brazilian Foreign Policy in Health During Dilma Rousseff's Administration (2011-2014)
This article analyses changes and continuities in Brazilian international actions in the field of public health, aiming at understanding how the Brazilian foreign policy in health during President Dilma Rousseff's first term (2011-2014) was developed. Available data from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) years and Dilma's first term were used for comparative purposes. Emphasis was given on South-South cooperation projects, more spec…
Civil society in global health policymaking
I conclude by encouraging scholars to address these lacuna in the literature and to explore the utility of political science theory and alternative policymaking models to better define and explain the complexity of civil society's role and influence in global health policymaking processes
Coca-Cola’s political and policy influence in Mexico
In response to Mexico’s burgeoning industrial epidemics of obesity and type-2 diabetes, triggered in part by sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages’ ability to readily market their products and influence consumption, the government has responded through a variety of non-communicable disease (NCD) policies. Nevertheless, major industries, such as Coca-Cola, have been able to continuously obstruct the prioritization of those policies targeting the co…
The international and domestic politics of type 2 diabetes policy reform in Brazil
Introduction Understanding the international and domestic political factors influencing the evolution of type 2 diabetes policies and primary care institutions is a new area of scholarly research. This article contributes to this area of inquiry by illustrating how a government’s shifting foreign policy aspirations, that is, to establish the government’s reputation as an internationally recognised leader in type 2 diabetes policy , and presidenti…
Explaining Russia’s Struggle to Eradicate HIV/Aids
One of Russia’s ongoing public health challenges is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Using qualitative methods focused on elite interviews and document analysis, the article argues that despite widespread recognition of this problem, there is still no strong political commitment to eradicating AIDS. Theoretically, John Kingdon’s “multiple streams” agenda-setting framework is applied and critiqued. It was found that in the absence of a convergence of Kingdo…
The politics of ultra-processed foods and beverages regulatory policy in upper-middle-income countries
Addressing the politics of corporate political activity and policy interference in response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a new area of scholarly research. The objective of this article is to explain how, in Mexico and Brazil, the ultra-processed foods and beverages industry succeeded in creating the political and social conditions conducive for their on-going regulatory policy influence and manipulation of scientific research. In additi…
Getting to the root of the problem
In response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Latin America, governments have introduced impressive prevention programmes However, the purpose of this article is to better explain why several governments have yet to address arguably the ‘root of the problem’: i.e. implementing effective regulatory policies restricting the food industries’ ability to market and sale their products. Introducing a political science analytical framework merging …
Integrating Social Determinants in Decision-Making Processes for Health
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