Foreign policy matters: a normative view of the G8 and population health
Foreign policy matters: a normative view of the G8 and population health
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10.2471/blt.06.037242
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2007-03-01
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Schrecker, Ted
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Labonte, Ronald;Schrecker, Ted
八国集团国家在国际经济和政治秩序中占据主导地位。鉴于在一个相互关联的世界中对健康的社会决定因素的影响是已知的，八国集团是任何调查外交政策与健康之间关系的合乎逻辑的起点。我们首先提出五个论点，以明确规范的、以公平为导向的视角来看待八国集团在人口健康相关领域的政策表现。然后，我们审查了八国集团在发展援助、债务减免和贸易这三个关键政策方面的表现，发现无论是花言巧语还是充满希望的体制创新，都没有得到与所展示的资源相称的资源。我们的结论是，有必要根据我们提出的规范观点开展宣传工作，而要有效地这样做，就需要进一步调查为什么有些政体比其他政体更能接受在其境内和境外的再分配政策。
The Group of Eight (G8) countries occupy a dominant position in the international economic and political order. Given what is known about influences on the social determinants of health in an interconnected world, the G8 are a logical starting point for any enquiry into the relations between foreign policy and health.We first make five arguments for adopting an explicitly normative, equity-oriented perspective on the performance of G8 policy in areas related to population health. We then examine G8 performance with respect to the crucial policy triad of development assistance, debt relief and trade, finding that neither rhetoric nor promising institutional innovation has been matched by resources commensurate with demonstrated. levels of need.We conclude that it is necessary to pursue advocacy efforts based on the normative perspective we have put forward and that doing so effectively requires further investigation of why some polities are more receptive than others to policies of redistribution both within and outside their borders.