PHA-Exchange> A UK global health strategy: the next steps

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A UK global health strategy: the next steps

Martin McKee, professor of European public health, London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London
Editorials - BMJ  2007;335:110 (21 July 2007),
doi:10.1136/bmj.39276.569722.47 

Is better health the fundamental goal, and will politicians collaborate
effectively? 

Available online at: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7611/110
<http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7611/110> 

"......A decade ago the US Institute of Medicine argued compellingly
that it was no more than enlightened self interest for countries to
invest in global health.1
<http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7611/110#REF1#REF1>  Such
investment would help to protect their own citizens from external
threats, strengthen the global economy, and contribute to international
security. In the intervening period, support for placing health at the
centre of foreign policy has gathered momentum. Earlier this year the
Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative was established by a group
of foreign ministers convened by the Norwegian and French governments,2
<http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7611/110#REF2#REF2>  and in the
United Kingdom Sir Liam Donaldson, the UK's chief medical adviser, has
proposed a government-wide strategy for global health.3
<http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7611/110#REF3#REF3>  

The British proposals identify five reasons for promoting global health.
These are to improve global security and health protection, enhance
sustainable development, improve trade by promoting health as a
commodity, maximise global public goods, and encourage a human rights
approach to health. An interdepartmental steering group has been
established to take this agenda forward across government and has
embarked on a wide-ranging consultation to help it fill in the
details...........". 

 

Oslo Ministerial Declaration-global health: a pressing foreign policy
issue of our time
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway,
Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand 
The Lancet - Vol. 369, Issue 9570, 21 April 2007, Pages 1373-1378

www.thelancet.com DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60498-X
Summary
<http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360760498X/a
bstract>  ( Free subscription required)

Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,  Oslo, Norway
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/ud/About-the-Ministry/Minister-of-Forei
gn-Affairs-Jonas-Gahr-S/Speeches-and-articles/2007/lancet.html?id=466469
<http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/ud/About-the-Ministry/Minister-of-Fore
ign-Affairs-Jonas-Gahr-S/Speeches-and-articles/2007/lancet.html?id=46646
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