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 …

In their hypothesis published in IJHPM, Lisa Forman and colleagues examined the prominence of the right to health and … sexual and reproductive health rights (as well as related language) in four of the key reports that fed into the process of …. I argue that sexual and reproductive health rights are relatively well-covered within the SDGs. In terms of the right to …

Today, nation-states are struggling to maintain public health insurance coverage and public health protections. Even … developed countries with generous programs are reviewing commitments toward health. For many developing countries, meeting the … health care needs of their populations is beyond reach. The international human right to health is a useful tool to sort out …

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 …

neoliberalism, the dominant economic policy framework in the world today, and the international human right to health, an ethical …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 …

This paper analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance on the realization of social … rights in poor countries. Meanwhile, health is broadly seen as an import precondition for social and economic development … related diseases. The paper concludes that global health governance is characterized by a combination of moral values and …

The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents the Obama administration’s new strategy for international … development assistance in health. With a pledge of $63 billion over six years, GHI aims to fund PEPFAR and a set of broader global … health issues (e.g., maternal and child health, nutrition, and neglected tropical diseases). GHI is also being framed as …