Trade and health : seeking common ground / edited by Chantal Blouin, Jody Heymann, and Nick Drager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blouin, Chantal, Author.

Contributor:

Drager, Nick.

Heymann, Jody, 1959-

Blouin, Chantal, 1971-

North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)

McGill University. Institute for Health and Social Policy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical economics.

Medical policy--International cooperation.

Medical policy.

International trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy and the North-South Institute-L'Institut nord-sud by McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Seeking improved health and increased income have long been common goals. Those who make the case that free trade will help everyone argue that the growth from increased trade will be shared and will improve people's lives. But they have not answered the fundamental question of how to formulate trade policy to simultaneously achieve growth and benefit health. Trade and Health answers this question by exploring the entire array of avenues through which trade affects health, and examining a number of case studies on how best to achieve policies that integrate health objectives. The contributors represent the full range of stakeholders in the trade-health debate - medical professionals, civil society representatives, academics from a range of disciplines, and negotiators and policy-makers at the national and global levels. Contributors include Bijit Bora (WTO), Rupa Chanda (IIMB), Diana Chigas (Tufts), Carlos Correa (U of Buenos Aires), Eric Dagenais (Industry Canada), Alison Earle (Harvard), David P. Fidler (Indiana), Anabel González (WTO), Ronald Labonte (Ottawa), Cha-aim Pachnee (MOPH-Thailand), Pedro Roffe (UNCTAD-ICTSD), Nancy Ross (McGill), David Sanders (Western Cape), Ted Schrecker (Ottawa), Anna Shea (McGill), Elisabeth Tuerk (UNCTAD), David Vivas-Eugui (ICTSD), Johanna von Braun (ICTSD), and Suwit Wibulpolprasert (MOPH-Thailand).

Contents:

Creating healthy trade / Chantal Blouin, Jody Heymann, and Nick Drager

Public health and the implementation of the TRIPS agreement in Latin America / Carlos M. Correa

A new generation of regional and bilateral trade agreements : lessons from the US-CAFTA-DR agreement / Pedro Roffe, Johanna Von Braun, and David Vivas-Eugui

Trade policy and health professionals' movements / Rupa Chanda

Rolling back malaria and the WTO Doha development agenda / Bijit Bora

Trade in heatlth services in the ASEAN context / Cha-Aim Pachanee and Suwit Wibulpolprasert

The effect of trade on labour conditions and health / Alison Earle, Anna Shea, and Jody Heymann

Trade, inequalities, and health : making the important measureable / Anna Shea, Nancy Ross, and Jody Heymann

Trade policy and health equity : can they avoid a collision? / Ronald Labonte, Ted Schrecker, and David Sanders

Achieving coherence between trade and health policies : selected examples from Pakistan, the Philippines, Uganda, and Peru / Elisabeth Tuerk and Mina Mashayekhi

Achieving coherence in anarchy : foreign policy, trade, and health / David P. Fidler

Negotiating across boundaries : promoting health in a globalized world / Diana Chigas ... [et al.].

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-345) and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-7858-7

1-282-86442-4

9786612864421

0-7735-7449-2

OCLC:

741350186