Assessing Proposals for New Global Health Treaties

An Analytic Framework

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ID11038247
AuthorsSteven J Hoffman (0000-0002-2064-3711, Steven J. Hoffman is with the Global Strategy Lab, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA. John-Arne Røttingen is with the Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, and the Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway. Julio Frenk is with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government,...), John-Arne Røttingen (Steven J. Hoffman is with the Global Strategy Lab, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA. John-Arne Røttingen is with the Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, and the Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway. Julio Frenk is with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government,...), John‐Arne Røttingen (0000-0002-5587-4296, Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Julio Frenk (0000-0002-8760-7926, Steven J. Hoffman is with the Global Strategy Lab, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA. John-Arne Røttingen is with the Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, and the Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway. Julio Frenk is with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government,...)
Year2015
Volume105
Issue8
Pages1523-1530
Publication date2015-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2015.302726
PMID26066926
PMCIDPMC4504317
OpenAlexW2171864234
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited27

We have presented an analytic framework and 4 criteria for assessing when global health treaties have reasonable prospects of yielding net positive effects. First, there must be a significant transnational dimension to the problem being addressed. Second, the goals should justify the coercive nature of treaties. Third, proposed global health treaties should have a reasonable chance of achieving benefits. Fourth, treaties should be the best commitment mechanism among the many competing alternatives. Applying this analytic framework to 9 recent calls for new global health treaties revealed that none fully meet the 4 criteria. Efforts aiming to better use or revise existing international instruments may be more productive than is advocating new treaties

Dimension (graph theory) · Economics · Global health · Health care · International law · Law and economics · Political science · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Mathematics

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