Next Steps for Elevating Health on Trade and Investment Policy Agendas: Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention"

Despite intergovernmental calls for greater policy coherence to tackle rising non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there has been a striking lack of coherence internationally and nationally between trade and health sectors. In this commentary, I explore the arguments by Lenucha and Thow in relation to...

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Autor principal: Townsend, Belinda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32613803
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.126
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spelling pubmed-74444372020-08-26 Next Steps for Elevating Health on Trade and Investment Policy Agendas: Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention" Townsend, Belinda Int J Health Policy Manag Commentary Despite intergovernmental calls for greater policy coherence to tackle rising non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there has been a striking lack of coherence internationally and nationally between trade and health sectors. In this commentary, I explore the arguments by Lenucha and Thow in relation to barriers for greater coherence for NCDs, apply them to regional trade agreements, and point to next steps in research and advocacy for greater attention to health and NCD prevention in government trade agendas. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7444437/ /pubmed/32613803 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.126 Text en © 2020 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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Next Steps for Elevating Health on Trade and Investment Policy Agendas: Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention"
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title_full_unstemmed Next Steps for Elevating Health on Trade and Investment Policy Agendas: Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention"
title_short Next Steps for Elevating Health on Trade and Investment Policy Agendas: Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention"
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