The Global Health Law Trilogy: Towards a Safer, Healthier, and Fairer World
2017
This article from The Lancet explores the importance of law in addressing enduring health problems across the world. International solutions are essential to dealing with trans-national threats that span borders, and a “trilogy” of global health law—the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, International Health Regulations (2005), and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework—is in place to help advance progress on the safety, health, and equity of the world’s population. The authors argue that these agreements have gaps in scope and enforceability, however, and offer suggested reforms to better regulate major health challenges at the international level, such as chronic and noncommunicable diseases, mental health, and injuries. This article precedes the release of a full report from the Lancet-O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and the Law.
The Global Health Law Trilogy: Towards a Safer, Healthier, and Fairer World
Source:
Gostin LO et al. The Global Health Law Trilogy: Towards a Safer, Healthier, and Fairer World. The Lancet 2017; 390(10105): 1918–1926. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31261-8.