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ReviewHealth promotion perspectives2023

Access to medicines through global health diplomacy.

Vijay Kumar Chattu, Bawa Singh, Sanjay Pattanshetty, Srikanth Reddy

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Review in Health promotion perspectives, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Vijay Kumar ChattuDepartment of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1V7, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9840-8335
Bawa SinghDepartment of South and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda-India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4832-0938
Sanjay PattanshettyDepartment of Global Health Governance, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2854-2613
Srikanth ReddySchool of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8035-9034

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organisation (WHO) emphasizes that equitable access to safe and affordable medicines is vital to attaining the highest possible standard of health by all. Ensuring equitable access to medicines (ATM) is also a key narrative of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as SDG 3.8 specifies "access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all" as a central component of universal health coverage (UHC). The SDG 3.b emphasizes the need to develop medicines to address persistent treatment gaps. However, around 2 billion people globally have no access to essential medicines, particularly in lower- and middle-income countries. The states' recognition of health as a human right obligates them to ensure access to timely, acceptable, affordable health care. While ATM is inherent in minimizing the treatment gaps, global health diplomacy (GHD) contributes to addressing these gaps and fulfilling the state's embracement of health as a human right.

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Access to medicinesCOVID-19DiplomacyGlobal healthHealth equityPharmaceuticalsSecurity measuresSustainable development goalsVaccines

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PMID37309432
PMCPMC10257564

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