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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2015

Assessing Proposals for New Global Health Treaties: An Analytic Framework.

Steven J Hoffman, John-Arne Røttingen, Julio Frenk

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Article in American journal of public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. International treaties have mostly failed to produce their intended effects.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  6. A Pandemic Instrument Can Start Turning Collective Problems into Collective Solutions by Governing the Common-Pool Resource of Antimicrobial Effectiveness.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Steven J HoffmanSteven 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, Harvard University.
John-Arne RøttingenSteven 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, Harvard University.
Julio FrenkSteven 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, Harvard University.

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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PMID26066926
PMCPMC4504317

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