Trade and Health: the Ethics of Global Rights, Regulation and Redistribution  

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Koivusalo, Meri

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, page 143-154.
Topik: Trade Flows; Trade Policies; Governance
Fulltext: Trade and Health the Ethics of Global Rights, Regulation and Redistribution.pdf (220.18KB)

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Concerns about health are not new aspects of trade policies, but have long been part of trade negotiations. It is also known that failures in public health policies can substantially and adversely affect trade. The economic costs of global epidemics have been rising sharply, but more important is the point that prevention of epidemics requires not only functional public health measures at national borders, but in essence functional health systems. Health policies and trade policies have mutually compatible and strengthening aspects, but there are also crucial and important confl icts of interests. In this chapter I outline ethical issues and questions that relate to these confl icts and the importance of considering trade policies not merely as transnational policies, but also as representing a form of global legal development and governance in relation to rights, redistribution and regulatory measures. These have consequences not only across countries and amongst international organizations and actors, but also for the balance between public policies and interests and those of national and increasingly global corporate actors and interest groups.

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