The global health law trilogy: towards a safer, healthier, and fairer world. [PDF]
Lancet, 2017 Global health advocates often turn to medicine and science for solutions to enduring health risks, but law is also a powerful tool. No state acting alone can ward off health threats that span borders, requiring international solutions.
Gostin LO, DeBartolo MC, Katz R.
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Adopting New International Health Instruments – What Can We Learn From the FCTC?; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2018 This Commentary forms a response to Nikogosian’s and Kickbusch’s forward-looking perspective about the legal strength of international health instruments.
Marlies Hesselman, Brigit Toebes
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Global health governance is a developing system in this complex institutional regime. The local and regional health policies sometimes challenge global health governance due to diverse discourse in various countries.
Muhammad Bilawal Khaskheli +5 more
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The global health and care worker compact: evidence base and policy considerations
BMJ Global Health, 2023 Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, and recognising the sacrifice of health and care workers alongside discrimination, violence, poor working conditions and other violations of their rights, health and safety, in 2021 the World Health Assembly ...
Lawrence Gostin +8 more
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The Legal Determinants of Health: How Can We Achieve Universal Health Coverage and What Does it Mean? [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021 How can we keep people – wherever they live – healthy and safe? Among all global health initiatives, universal health coverage (UHC) has garnered most political attention.
Lawrence O. Gostin
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Has Global Health Law Risen to Meet the COVID-19 Challenge? Revisiting the International Health Regulations to Prepare for Future Threats [PDF]
, 2020 Global health law is essential in responding to the infectious disease threats of a globalizing world, where no single country, or border, can wall off disease.
Gostin, Lawrence O. +2 more
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The Untapped Power of Soda Taxes: Incentivizing Consumers, Generating Revenue, and Altering Corporate Behavior [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017 Globally, soda taxes are gaining momentum as powerful interventions to discourage sugar consumption and thereby reduce the growing burden of obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Sarah A. Roache, Lawrence O. Gostin
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 COVID-19 exposed major gaps in global, regional, state, and local responses to public health emergencies. In preparation for the WHA Special Session to consider the benefits of developing an international instrument on pandemic preparedness, the O’Neill ...
Francesca Nardi +4 more
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2019 Global health law describes the legal frameworks that structure global health. Laws and regulations, when based on the best available evidence, can promote healthy behaviors, regulate hazardous activities, and ensure socially responsible corporate marketing and products.
Lawrence O, Gostin +1 more
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Global Health Law: A Definition and Grand Challenges [PDF]
, 2008 It has been only recently that scholars have engaged in a serious discussion of public health law. This academic discourse examines the role of the state and civil society in health promotion and disease prevention within the country.
Gostin, Lawrence O., Taylor, Allyn L.
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