Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems: Comment on "The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?"

Addressing the increasingly globalised determinants of many important problems affecting human health is a complex task requiring collective action. We suggest that part of the solution to addressing intractable global health issues indeed lies with the role of new legal instruments in the form of g...

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Autores principales: Walls, Helen L., Ooms, Gorik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29172381
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.62
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description Addressing the increasingly globalised determinants of many important problems affecting human health is a complex task requiring collective action. We suggest that part of the solution to addressing intractable global health issues indeed lies with the role of new legal instruments in the form of globally binding treaties, as described in the recent article of Nikogosian and Kickbusch. However, in addition to the use of international law to develop new treaties, another part of the solution may lie in innovative use of existing legal instruments. A 2015 court ruling in The Hague, which ordered the Dutch government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% within five years, complements this perspective, suggesting a way forward for addressing global health problems that critically involves civil society and innovative use of existing domestic legal instruments.
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spelling pubmed-57263242017-12-18 Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems: Comment on "The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?" Walls, Helen L. Ooms, Gorik Int J Health Policy Manag Commentary Addressing the increasingly globalised determinants of many important problems affecting human health is a complex task requiring collective action. We suggest that part of the solution to addressing intractable global health issues indeed lies with the role of new legal instruments in the form of globally binding treaties, as described in the recent article of Nikogosian and Kickbusch. However, in addition to the use of international law to develop new treaties, another part of the solution may lie in innovative use of existing legal instruments. A 2015 court ruling in The Hague, which ordered the Dutch government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% within five years, complements this perspective, suggesting a way forward for addressing global health problems that critically involves civil society and innovative use of existing domestic legal instruments. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2017-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5726324/ /pubmed/29172381 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.62 Text en © 2017 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems: Comment on "The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?"
title Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems: Comment on "The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?"
title_full Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems: Comment on "The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?"
title_fullStr Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems: Comment on "The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?"
title_full_unstemmed Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems: Comment on "The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?"
title_short Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems: Comment on "The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?"
title_sort innovative use of the law to address complex global health problems: comment on "the legal strength of international health instruments - what it brings to global health governance?"
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29172381
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.62
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