[afro-nets] Bulletin of the World Health Organization

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Volume 85, Number 3, March 2007, 161-244

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Theme issue: health and foreign policy; Health and security;
Migration and health; How does climate change affect public
health?; Health impact assessment; Country case studies:
Malaysia and Thailand

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/3/en/index.html


EDITORIALS

Foreign policy, trade and health: at the cutting edge of global
health diplomacy
- Nick Drager & David P Fidler

"...The cutting edge of global health diplomacy raises certain
cautions regarding health's role in trade and foreign policies.
Competition among countries' national interests sometimes
impedes policy coherence, which makes attainment of health goals
more difficult. As the trade and health relationship makes
clear, health ministries, experts and advocates can affect this
competition constructively by combining their epidemiological
skills and ethical principles with sharpened political and
economic sensibilities about global politics. Securing health's
fullest participation in foreign policy does not ensure health
for all, but it supports the principle that foreign policy
achievements by any country in promoting and protecting health
will be of value to all..."

Strengthening public health education and training to improve
global health
- Ritu Sadana et al.


POLICY AND PRACTICE

Trade policy and health: from conflicting interests to policy
coherence
- Chantal Blouin

The importance of militaries from developing countries in global
infectious disease surveillance
- Jean-Paul Chretien et al.

Security, insecurity and health
- Robin Coupland

Foreign policy matters: a normative view of the G8 and
population health
- Ronald Labonte & Ted Schrecker


Making G8 leaders deliver: an analysis of compliance and health
commitments, 1996-2006
- John J Kirton et al.

Health and foreign policy: influences of migration and
population mobility
- Douglas W MacPherson et al.

Bridging health and foreign policy: the role of health impact
assessments
- Kelley Lee et al.

Health impact assessment, human rights and global public policy:
a critical appraisal
- Alex Scott-Samuel & Eileen O'Keefe

Health and foreign policy in question: the case of humanitarian
action
- Michel Thieren

Health imperatives in foreign policy: the case of Malaysia
- Simon Barraclough & Kai-Lit Phua


PERSPECTIVES

Global health diplomacy: the need for new perspectives,
strategic approaches and skills in global health
- Ilona Kickbusch, Gaudenz Silberschmidt, Paulo Buss

Health and security in foreign policy
- Rebecca Katz & Daniel A Singer

Global climate change: implications for international public
health policy
- Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum et al.

The need for global planned mobilization of essential medicine:
lessons from a massive Thai botulism outbreak
- K Ungchusak et al.

The value of a human rights perspective in health and foreign
policy
- Mary Robinson

Reflections on the revolution in health and foreign policy
- David P Fidler