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The People’s Health Movement (PHM) was formed in 2000 and drew inspiration from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care’s ‘Health for All’ (1978). Since then PHM has been an active part of a global cou...
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Conclusion: Strengthening Trade and Health Policy Coherence
The Conclusion draws together all of the arguments of this book. It briefly recaps the emergence of the multilateral rules-based trading system and the shift towards bilateral and regional trade agreements, ex...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces readers to the ambivalent relationship between trade and health and explains why understanding this relationship, along with the complex web of trade and investment rules that has devel...
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Trade and Health: From Ancient Pandemics to the World Trade Organization and Beyond
Trade is as old as human societies, but treaties governing trade between nations are relatively new. Negotiations for international trade rules began after World War II, culminating in the creation of the Worl...
