Volume 85, Number 3, March 2007, 161-244

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

Theme issue: health and foreign policy; Health and security; Migration and health; How does climate change affect public health?; Health impact assessment; Country case studies: Malaysia and Thailand
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EDITORIALS

Foreign policy, trade and health: at the cutting edge of global health diplomacy
- Nick Drager & David P Fidler
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Strengthening public health education and training to improve global health
- Ritu Sadana et al.
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NEWS

News
Medical visas mark growth of Indian medical tourism
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Navy labs play public health role
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WHO News
Health is a foreign policy concern
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Recent news from WHO
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POLICY AND PRACTICE

Trade policy and health: from conflicting interests to policy coherence
- Chantal Blouin
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The importance of militaries from developing countries in global infectious disease surveillance
- Jean-Paul Chretien et al.
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Security, insecurity and health
- Robin Coupland
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Foreign policy matters: a normative view of the G8 and population health
- Ronald Labonte & Ted Schrecker
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Making G8 leaders deliver: an analysis of compliance and health commitments, 1996–2006
- John J Kirton et al.
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Health and foreign policy: influences of migration and population mobility
- Douglas W MacPherson et al.
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Bridging health and foreign policy: the role of health impact assessments
- Kelley Lee et al.
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Health impact assessment, human rights and global public policy: a critical appraisal
- Alex Scott-Samuel & Eileen O’Keefe
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Health and foreign policy in question: the case of humanitarian action
- Michel Thieren
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Health imperatives in foreign policy: the case of Malaysia
- Simon Barraclough & Kai-Lit Phua
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PERSPECTIVES

Global health diplomacy: the need for new perspectives, strategic approaches and skills in global health
- Ilona Kickbusch et al.
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Health and security in foreign policy
- Rebecca Katz & Daniel A Singer
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Global climate change: implications for international public health policy
- Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum et al.
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The need for global planned mobilization of essential medicine: lessons from a massive Thai botulism outbreak
- K Ungchusak et al.
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The value of a human rights perspective in health and foreign policy
- Mary Robinson
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Reflections on the revolution in health and foreign policy
- David P Fidler
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