Trade and Health: Is the Health Community Ready for Action?

Open Access

25 January 2005

journal article
essay
Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine

Vol. 2 (1) , e8
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020008

Abstract

There are greater tensions than ever before between promoting trade and protecting health. Human health could lose out to trade liberalization unless the health community fights its case.

Keywords

PUBLIC AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
HEALTH CARE POLICY
GLOBAL HEALTH
EUROPE
HORMONES
EUROPEAN UNION
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE

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