Global Health: Impact of Foreign Policies on Public Health Standards
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GLOBAL HEALTH
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1GLOBAL HEALTH
Maintenance of a decent standard of health has now become a global concern all over
the world which is the primary reason why countries all over the world are relying upon
various foreign policies in order to ensure a safer public health standard. However, it is
critical to note here that the extent to which the foreign policies has affected the health
globally has elicited both a positive as well as a negative effect.
With the incorporation of stringent rules pertaining to exclusive protection of patent
laws to maintain exclusiveness of the pharmaceutical formulations used in drugs, agreed
upon by the TRIPS agreement and public health, undertaken at Doha, it became extremely
difficult for the underprivileged proportion of population dwelling in the underdeveloped
nations to afford the super expensive, patent protected drug formulations (Gostin &
Friedman,2013). Although, the declaration was undertaken in order to discourage the trade of
duplicated formulations to maintain the spirit of quality and exclusiveness, however
reflecting on the scenario the World Trade Organization in 2003, amended the law in order to
promote import of cheaper pharmaceutical drugs for the benefit of the poor proportion of the
global population by enforcing ‘compulsory licencing’. However, despite all the measures the
developing nations are not able to incorporate the flexibilities due to the restrictions imposed
on TRIPS measures in order to safeguard the economic interests at the cost of public health
compensation.
In order to spread global awareness about the carcinogenic effect of tobacco, in the
year of 2003, the World Health Assembly set up the convention for tobacco control and took
massive steps to highlight the harmful effects of tobacco smoking including awareness about
lung cancer (Wilkinson,2013). WHO successfully tied up with various non-governmental
organizations in order to spread awareness about successful interventions proven by various
research studies. However, the treaty faced severe opposition from the major tobacco
exporter countries of the world, that included U.S.A, Japan, Germany and China and finally
Maintenance of a decent standard of health has now become a global concern all over
the world which is the primary reason why countries all over the world are relying upon
various foreign policies in order to ensure a safer public health standard. However, it is
critical to note here that the extent to which the foreign policies has affected the health
globally has elicited both a positive as well as a negative effect.
With the incorporation of stringent rules pertaining to exclusive protection of patent
laws to maintain exclusiveness of the pharmaceutical formulations used in drugs, agreed
upon by the TRIPS agreement and public health, undertaken at Doha, it became extremely
difficult for the underprivileged proportion of population dwelling in the underdeveloped
nations to afford the super expensive, patent protected drug formulations (Gostin &
Friedman,2013). Although, the declaration was undertaken in order to discourage the trade of
duplicated formulations to maintain the spirit of quality and exclusiveness, however
reflecting on the scenario the World Trade Organization in 2003, amended the law in order to
promote import of cheaper pharmaceutical drugs for the benefit of the poor proportion of the
global population by enforcing ‘compulsory licencing’. However, despite all the measures the
developing nations are not able to incorporate the flexibilities due to the restrictions imposed
on TRIPS measures in order to safeguard the economic interests at the cost of public health
compensation.
In order to spread global awareness about the carcinogenic effect of tobacco, in the
year of 2003, the World Health Assembly set up the convention for tobacco control and took
massive steps to highlight the harmful effects of tobacco smoking including awareness about
lung cancer (Wilkinson,2013). WHO successfully tied up with various non-governmental
organizations in order to spread awareness about successful interventions proven by various
research studies. However, the treaty faced severe opposition from the major tobacco
exporter countries of the world, that included U.S.A, Japan, Germany and China and finally
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