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A political approach emphasizes political economy considerations applied to global health.

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government.

Originating in moral philosophy ( e. g., Adam Smith was professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow ), political economy of health is the study of how economies of states — polities, hence political economy-influence aggregate population health outcomes.