PHM-Exch> Globalization and Health Journal: health and foreign policy article

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ronald Labonte <rlabonte at uottawa.ca>


A new article on global health diplomacy, health/foreign policy has just
come out in the open access journal, Globalization and Health:

http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/6/1/14

Framing health and foreign policy: lessons for global health diplomacy

Ronald Labonte and Michelle Gagnon

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. The
important question arises about which arguments prevail in actual state
decision-making. Initial findings support thefact that most states, even
when committed to health as a foreign policy goal, still make decisions
primarily on the basis of the 'high politics' of national security and
economic interests. Development, human rights and ethical/moral arguments
for global health assistance are present in the discourse, but do not appear
to dominate practice. While political momentum for health as a foreign
policy goal persists, the framing of this goal remains a contested issue.
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