Governing antimicrobial resistance: a narrative review of global governance mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a central health challenge of the twenty first century, poses substantial population health risks, with deaths currently estimated to be around 700,000 per year globally. The international community has signaled its commitment to exploring and implementing effective policy responses to AMR, with a Global Action Plan on AMR approved by the World Health Assembly in 2015. Major governance challenges could thwart collective efforts to address AMR, along with limited knowledge about how to design effective global governance mechanisms. To identify common ground for more coordinated global actions we conducted a narrative review to map dominant ideas and academic debates about AMR governance. We found two categories of global governance mechanisms: binding and non

SUBMITTER: Ruckert A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7479750 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature