tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: "Framing health and foreign policy: lessons for global health diplomacy"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Framing health and foreign policy: lessons for global health diplomacy | Labonté and Gagnon Globalization and Health 2010 6 14 http content 6 1 14 H2 GLOBALIZATION . 7 AND HEALTH REVIEW Open Access Framing health and foreign policy lessons for global health diplomacy Ronald Labonté1 Michelle L Gagnon2 Abstract Global health financing has increased dramatically in recent years indicative of a rise in health as a foreign policy issue. Several governments have issued specific foreign policy statements on global health and a new term global health diplomacy has been coined to describe the processes by which state and non-state actors engage to position health issues more prominently in foreign policy decision-making. Their ability to do so is important to advancing international cooperation in health. In this paper we review the arguments for health in foreign policy that inform global health diplomacy. These are organized into six policy frames security development global public goods trade human rights and ethical moral reasoning. Each of these frames has implications for how global health as a foreign policy issue is conceptualized. Differing arguments within and between these policy frames while overlapping can also be contradictory. This raises an important question about which arguments prevail in actual state decision-making. This question is addressed through an analysis of policy or policy-related documents and academic literature pertinent to each policy framing with some assessment of policy practice. The reference point for this analysis is the explicit goal of improving global health equity. This goal has increasing national traction within national public health discourse and decision-making and through the Millennium Development Goals and other multilateral reports and declarations is entering global health policy discussion. Initial findings support conventional international relations theory that most states even when committed to health as a foreign policy goal still make decisions primarily