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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal [Que.] : 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, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (x, 372 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773574496
  • 0773574492
  • 9781282864429
  • 1282864424
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 382/.453621
LOC classification:
  • RA410.5 .T73 2007eb
NLM classification:
  • 2008 D-531
  • W 74.1
Online resources:
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 [and others].
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-345) and index.

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 [and others].

Print version record.

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.

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