Meri Koivusalo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1739972 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Meri Koivusalo |
| NOMBRES | Meri |
| APELLIDO | Koivusalo |
| FIRMA | KOIVUSALO M |
| AFILIACIONES | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5365-5372 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The changing context of Health in All Policies in Finland since the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Finland
Comprehensive public health policies were developed and initiated in Finland in early 1970s (Talousneuvosto 1972). The first steps were taken to prevent road accidents, work-related diseases and accidents, and smoking-related diseases. Coronary heart diseases were tackled through improving diet, reduce smoking, and lowering high-blood pressure, in particular in the higher hit province of North Karelia, where the North Karelia project was started …
Transforming trade for vaccine equity
The ongoing Pandemic Agreement negotiations illustrate significant gaps in action required to respond effectively to the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and make progress towards public health goals, including Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The pandemic revealed vaccine equity as a unifying health need, and international trade as a Commercial Determinant of Health. We explored where policy action could reshape trade relationships, identif…
Student experiences and perspectives on decolonising global health education
BACKGROUND: Decolonisation has become a global health priority, addressing inequities rooted in colonial histories that continue to shape power dynamics and knowledge systems. Nordic global health programmes bring together students and faculty from diverse backgrounds in a region defined by inclusive ideals but shaped by underexamined colonial legacies. This context offers a valuable setting to examine how decolonial perspectives are integrated o…
Disruptive (dis)engagement
Global digital platforms have become important actors for economy and work with social policy consequences. This article analyses strategies and actions of global digital platforms from the perspective of how and what kind of global social policy these represent. It draws from analysis of how platform company strategic approaches relate to rights, regulation, and redistribution, and then using abductive reasoning and mixed methods empirical case …
Is the EU steering national social and health policy making? A case-study on Finland's national reform
As part of the European Semester, Finland received country-specific recommendations (CSRs) in 2013-2020 that encouraged the reform of national social and health services. These recommendations were part of efforts to balance public finances and implement public-sector structural reforms. Finland has been struggling to reform the national social and health care system since 2005. Only on 1 January 2023 did the new wellbeing services counties becom…
Globalization, platform work, and wellbeing—a comparative study of Uber drivers in three cities
BACKGROUND: Globalization of platform work has become a challenge for wider social and employment relations and wellbeing of workers, yet on-location work remains governed also by local regulatory context. Understanding common challenges across countries and potential for regulatory measures is essential to enhance health and wellbeing of those who work in platform economy. Our comparative study on platform work analyzed concerns of Uber drivers …
It's very much part of this movement to undermine democracy
Despite increasing contestations of agreed global commitments on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), our understanding of strategies of opposition in global health policymaking remains limited. This article explores the opposition to SRHR at the European level focusing on the decision-making institutions of the European Union (EU). The central research questions ask i) how SRHR opposition actors seek to influence EU institutions and…
Global health without sexual and reproductive health and rights? Analysis of United Nations documents and country statements, 2014–2019
INTRODUCTION: The initial International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 contains the first reference to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights (SRHR). It has been considered agreed language on SRHR in future United Nations (UN) documents. However, opposition to SRHR in global forums has increased, including in conjunction with an increase in religious, far-right populist politics. This study provides an empirical …
When actions do not match aspirations - comparison of the European Union policy claims against what has been negotiated for health services, trade and investment
BACKGROUND: Obligations arising from trade and investment agreements can affect how governments can regulate and organise health systems. The European Union has made explicit statements of safeguarding policy space for health systems. We assessed to what extent health systems were safeguarded in trade negotiations using the European Union (EU) negotiation proposals for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the negotiated a…
Rights, regulation and redistribution
The analysis of the implications of trade and investment agreements usually follows either economic policy modelling or the analysis of specific arbitration cases. These two approaches are often less helpful from the perspective of more systemic impacts or other policy aims as the potential concerns tend to be accounted for on the basis of a single issue (e.g. tobacco) or case or are carved out from particular agreements. The 3R framework on righ…
Global health policy in Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent global policy goals in contrast to Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), which had developmental focus. This is the global potential of SDGs for global health policy. However, the large number of goals bear the risk of prioritisation between different goals and broad global frameworks and specific targets may not be useful in shaping policy guidance and global approaches in policy areas, where we alrea…
Policy space for health and trade and investment agreements
New trade agreements affect how governments can regulate for health both within health systems and in addressing health protection, promotion and social determinants of health in other policies. It is essential that those responsible for health understand the impacts of these trade negotiations and agreements on policy space for health at a national and local level. While we know more about implications from negotiations concerning intellectual p…
Undermining patient and public engagement and limiting its impact
Patient and public involvement has been at the heart of UK health policy for more than two decades. This commitment to putting patients at the heart of the British National Health Service (NHS) has become a central principle helping to ensure equity, patient safety and effectiveness in the health system. The recent Health and Social Care Act 2012 is the most significant reform of the NHS since its foundation in 1948. More radically, this legislat…
Global Social Policy Forum
Global Social Policy Forum
Common Health Policy Interests and the Shaping of Global Pharmaceutical Policies
In order to achieve more ethical global health outcomes, health policies must be driven by health priorities and should take into account broader health policy requirements, including the needs of specific national health systems. It is thus important to recognize that the division of interests in key policy areas are not necessarily between the priorities of rich and poor countries, but between (1) pharmaceutical industry interests and health po…
The state of Health in All policies (HiAP) in the European Union
Health in All Policies (HiAP) was formally legitimated as a European Union (EU) approach in 2006. It resulted from more long-term efforts to enhance action on considering health and health policy implications of other policies, as well as recognition that European-level policies affect health systems and scope for health-related regulation at national level. However, implementation of HiAP has remained a challenge. European-level efforts to use h…
Global Social Policy Forum
Global Social Policy Forum
International audience
Global Public Health Security
The World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century . Geneva : World Health Organization , 2007 . 72 pp . CHF40.00/$36.00 paperback . The flagship publications of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have become key policy fora in their own right. They raise issues and reshape intellectual agendas; they seek to extend or reshape the mandate of particular organizations; they raise the …
Global Social Policy Forum
GSP Forum
International audience
GSP Forum
On Equity, Inequality and Global Institutions
International audience
Global social governance. Themes and prospects
The state of Health in All policies (HiAP) in the European Union
Health in All Policies (HiAP) was formally legitimated as a European Union (EU) approach in 2006. It resulted from more long-term efforts to enhance action on considering health and health policy implications of other policies, as well as recognition that European-level policies affect health systems and scope for health-related regulation at national level. However, implementation of HiAP has remained a challenge. European-level efforts to use h…
Drinking water mutagenicity and gastrointestinal and urinary tract cancers
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between exposure to mutagenic drinking water and cancers of the gastrointestinal and urinary tract. METHODS. Past exposure to drinking water mutagenicity was assessed in 56 Finnish municipalities for the years 1955 and 1970. The cases of bladder, kidney, stomach, colon, and rectum cancers were derived from two periods (1967 to 1976 and 1977 to 1986). Age, sex, social class,…
It's very much part of this movement to undermine democracy
Despite increasing contestations of agreed global commitments on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), our understanding of strategies of opposition in global health policymaking remains limited. This article explores the opposition to SRHR at the European level focusing on the decision-making institutions of the European Union (EU). The central research questions ask i) how SRHR opposition actors seek to influence EU institutions and…
Common Health Policy Interests and the Shaping of Global Pharmaceutical Policies
In order to achieve more ethical global health outcomes, health policies must be driven by health priorities and should take into account broader health policy requirements, including the needs of specific national health systems. It is thus important to recognize that the division of interests in key policy areas are not necessarily between the priorities of rich and poor countries, but between (1) pharmaceutical industry interests and health po…
Global health policy in Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent global policy goals in contrast to Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), which had developmental focus. This is the global potential of SDGs for global health policy. However, the large number of goals bear the risk of prioritisation between different goals and broad global frameworks and specific targets may not be useful in shaping policy guidance and global approaches in policy areas, where we alrea…
Drinking water mutagenicity and gastrointestinal and urinary tract cancers
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between exposure to mutagenic drinking water and cancers of the gastrointestinal and urinary tract. METHODS. Past exposure to drinking water mutagenicity was assessed in 56 Finnish municipalities for the years 1955 and 1970. The cases of bladder, kidney, stomach, colon, and rectum cancers were derived from two periods (1967 to 1976 and 1977 to 1986). Age, sex, social class,…
Koivusalo and Colleagues Respond
Koivusalo and Colleagues Respond Meri Koivusalo, Jouni J. K. Jaakkola, Terttu Vartiainen, Timo Hakulinen, Sakari Karjalainen, Eero Pukkala, and Jouko Tuomisto P Levallois, and P AyotteCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.9.1299 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The World Trade Organization
Agreements negotiated at the World Trade Organization already have important implications for health and health policy. They impact on the ability of governments to regulate trade in the interests of health; on national and international governance and public health standards; and on the future of the precautionary principle. Agreements on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights and trade in health services could benefit the multi-n…
Global Social Policy Forum
GSP Forum
International audience
GSP Forum
On Equity, Inequality and Global Institutions
International audience
Editors’ Message
Global Social Policy Forum
International audience
Global Social Policy Forum
Global Social Policy Forum
International audience
Global Public Health Security
The World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century . Geneva : World Health Organization , 2007 . 72 pp . CHF40.00/$36.00 paperback . The flagship publications of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have become key policy fora in their own right. They raise issues and reshape intellectual agendas; they seek to extend or reshape the mandate of particular organizations; they raise the …
Global Social Policy Forum
Global Social Policy Forum
Common Health Policy Interests and the Shaping of Global Pharmaceutical Policies
In order to achieve more ethical global health outcomes, health policies must be driven by health priorities and should take into account broader health policy requirements, including the needs of specific national health systems. It is thus important to recognize that the division of interests in key policy areas are not necessarily between the priorities of rich and poor countries, but between (1) pharmaceutical industry interests and health po…
The state of Health in All policies (HiAP) in the European Union
Health in All Policies (HiAP) was formally legitimated as a European Union (EU) approach in 2006. It resulted from more long-term efforts to enhance action on considering health and health policy implications of other policies, as well as recognition that European-level policies affect health systems and scope for health-related regulation at national level. However, implementation of HiAP has remained a challenge. European-level efforts to use h…
Global Social Policy Forum
Undermining patient and public engagement and limiting its impact
Patient and public involvement has been at the heart of UK health policy for more than two decades. This commitment to putting patients at the heart of the British National Health Service (NHS) has become a central principle helping to ensure equity, patient safety and effectiveness in the health system. The recent Health and Social Care Act 2012 is the most significant reform of the NHS since its foundation in 1948. More radically, this legislat…
Policy space for health and trade and investment agreements
New trade agreements affect how governments can regulate for health both within health systems and in addressing health protection, promotion and social determinants of health in other policies. It is essential that those responsible for health understand the impacts of these trade negotiations and agreements on policy space for health at a national and local level. While we know more about implications from negotiations concerning intellectual p…
Global health policy in Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent global policy goals in contrast to Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), which had developmental focus. This is the global potential of SDGs for global health policy. However, the large number of goals bear the risk of prioritisation between different goals and broad global frameworks and specific targets may not be useful in shaping policy guidance and global approaches in policy areas, where we alrea…
Rights, regulation and redistribution
The analysis of the implications of trade and investment agreements usually follows either economic policy modelling or the analysis of specific arbitration cases. These two approaches are often less helpful from the perspective of more systemic impacts or other policy aims as the potential concerns tend to be accounted for on the basis of a single issue (e.g. tobacco) or case or are carved out from particular agreements. The 3R framework on righ…
Global health without sexual and reproductive health and rights? Analysis of United Nations documents and country statements, 2014–2019
INTRODUCTION: The initial International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 contains the first reference to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights (SRHR). It has been considered agreed language on SRHR in future United Nations (UN) documents. However, opposition to SRHR in global forums has increased, including in conjunction with an increase in religious, far-right populist politics. This study provides an empirical …
When actions do not match aspirations - comparison of the European Union policy claims against what has been negotiated for health services, trade and investment
BACKGROUND: Obligations arising from trade and investment agreements can affect how governments can regulate and organise health systems. The European Union has made explicit statements of safeguarding policy space for health systems. We assessed to what extent health systems were safeguarded in trade negotiations using the European Union (EU) negotiation proposals for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the negotiated a…
Global social governance. Themes and prospects
Disruptive (dis)engagement
Global digital platforms have become important actors for economy and work with social policy consequences. This article analyses strategies and actions of global digital platforms from the perspective of how and what kind of global social policy these represent. It draws from analysis of how platform company strategic approaches relate to rights, regulation, and redistribution, and then using abductive reasoning and mixed methods empirical case …
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