From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Globalization and Health<br>
– Framing International Trade and Chronic Disease<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Ronald
Labonté</span> 1*, Katia S Mohindra 1, Raphael Lencucha 2</span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">1 <u></u>Institute<u></u> of <u></u>Population<u></u>
Health, <u></u>University<u></u> of <u></u>Ottawa<u></u>, <u></u><u></u>Ottawa<u></u>,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">2 University
of <u></u>Lethbridge<u></u>, <u></u><u></u>Lethbridge<u></u>, <u></u>Alberta<u></u>, <u></u>Canada<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Globalization and
Health<i><span style="font-style:italic"> </span></i></span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">2011, </span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">7</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">:21 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-7-21 – July 2011<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Available
online at: <a href="http://bit.ly/pWL8KA" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/pWL8KA</span></font></a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“…..There is an emerging
evidence base that global trade is linked with the rise of chronic disease in
many low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This linkage is associated, in part,
with the global diffusion of unhealthy lifestyles and health damaging products posing
a particular challenge to countries still facing high burdens of communicable disease.
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We developed a generic framework which depicts the determinants and pathways
connecting global trade with chronic disease. We then applied this framework to
three key risk factors for chronic disease: unhealthy diets, alcohol, and
tobacco. This led to specific ‘product pathways’, which can be
further refined and used by health policy-makers to engage with their
country’s trade policy-makers around health impacts of ongoing trade
treaty negotiations, and by researchers to continue refining an evidence base
on how global trade is affecting patterns of chronic disease. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The prevention and treatment of
chronic diseases is now rising on global policy agendas, highlighted by the UN
Summit on Noncommunicable Diseases (September 2011). Briefs and declarations leading
up to this Summit reference the role of globalization and trade in the spread
of risk factors for these diseases, but emphasis is placed on interventions to
change health behaviours and on voluntary corporate responsibility. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The findings summarized in this article
imply the need for a more concerted approach to regulate trade-related risk
factors and thus more engagement between health and trade policy sectors within
and between nations. An explicit recognition of the role of trade policies in
the spread of noncommunicable disease risk factors should be a minimum outcome
of the September 2011 Summit, with a commitment to ensure that future trade
treaties do not increase such risks….”<br>
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