important roles in several international health treaties and conventions in recent years. There are now concerns that its … interests in health as a foreign policy goal may be diminishing. This article reports on a thematic analysis of key Canadian … the interstices of Canadian health and foreign policy. It finds that health is primarily and increasingly framed in …

Book Review: Global Health, Human Rights and the Challenge of Neoliberal Policies, by Audrey R. Chapman, published by … Cambridge University Press, 2016.In her latest book, Global Health, Human Rights and the Challenge of Neoliberal Policies …, distinguished public health and human rights expert Audrey Chapman presents an in-depth examination of the conflicts between …

The World Health Organization (WHO) was intended to serve at the forefront of efforts to realize human rights to … advance global health, and yet this promise of a rights-based approach to health has long been threatened by political … interview research with global health stakeholders, this research examines WHO's contributions to (and, in many cases …

In spite of vast global improvements in living standards, health, and wellbeing, the persistence of absolute poverty … cause for the failure of developing states to improve the health of their peoples. While economic development in developing … countries is necessary to provide for underlying determinants of health – most prominently, poverty reduction and the building …

If the 2010 Canadian Public Health Association conference is a bellwether of mainstream Canadian public and global … health practice, its dearth of human rights papers suggests that, outside a small scholarly cohort, human rights remain … marginal therein. This potential ‘rights gap’ conflicts with growing recognition of the relationship between health and human …

In spite of vast global improvements in living standards, health, and well-being, the persistence of absolute poverty … cause for the failure of developing states to improve the health of their peoples. While economic development in developing … countries is necessary to provide for underlying determinants of health most prominently, poverty reduction and the building of …

Globalization, a process characterized by the growing interdependence of the world's people, impacts health systems and … the social determinants of health in ways that are detrimental to health equity. In a world in which there are few … human rights instruments include the right to the highest attainable level of physical and mental health and others that are …