Oslo Ministerial Declaration—global health: a pressing foreign policy issue of our time

Norway,; Senegal,; África, South; Thailand,

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“…It was slow progress towards the MDGs, particularly maternal and child health, that led to the Oslo Declaration in the first place, which advocated that donors should “push development cooperation models that match domestic commitment and reflect the requirements of those in need and not one that is characterised by charity and donors’ national interests” [1]. Evidence, however, suggests that most aid still tends to be allocated by donors’ strategic security or economic interests rather than by need [47–49].…”

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“…In 2007, the foreign ministers of seven countries (Norway, France, Brazil, Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa and Thailand) issued the Oslo Declaration identifying global health as ‘a pressing foreign policy issue of our time’ [1]. A number of government legislative, policy or commentary reports preceded and followed: Sweden’s policy on development [2], Switzerland’s health foreign policy [3], Norway’s Policy Coherence Commission [4] and new white paper on global health in foreign and development policy [5–7], and the UK’s Health is Global strategy [8].…”

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Past Fame, Present Frames and Future Flagship? An Exploration of How Health is Positioned in Canadian Foreign Policy

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Runnels

Gagnon

2012

Administrative Sciences

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Canada has been regarded as a model global citizen with firm commitments to multilateralism. It has also played important roles in several international health treaties and conventions in recent years. There are now concerns that its interests in health as a foreign policy goal may be diminishing. This article reports on a thematic analysis of key Canadian foreign policy statements issued over the past decade, and interviews with key informants knowledgeable of, or experienced in the interstices of Canadian health and foreign policy. It finds that health is primarily and increasingly framed in relation to national security and economic interests. Little attention has been given to human rights obligations relevant to health as a foreign policy issue, and global health is not seen as a priority of the present government. Global health is nonetheless regarded as something with which Canadian foreign policy must engage, if only because of Canada’s membership in many United Nations and other multilateral fora. Development of a single global health strategy or framework is seen as important to improve intersectoral cooperation on health issues, and foreign policy coherence. There remains a cautious optimism that health could become the base from which Canada reasserts its internationalist status.

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Past Fame, Present Frames and Future Flagship? An Exploration of How Health is Positioned in Canadian Foreign Policy

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Gagnon

2012

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“…Cuba, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey, for example, have been seeking to shape such discussions and so boost their "soft power" in the global arena. In the industrialized world, Germany, Japan, Norway and Sweden have also been joining in this process but -with the exception of the Oslo grouping 7 -there is little evidence of any multinational coordination to increase the impact of such nations in the global health arena.…”

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BRICS’ role in global health and the promotion of universal health coverage: the debate continues

Marten

Watt

Huang

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Bull. World Health Organ.

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“…The Oslo Ministerial Declaration1 signed by seven ministers of foreign affairs encapsulated ideas about how expanding the scope of foreign policy to strategically include global health on the international agenda is an important step towards improving collective action and multilateral co-operation on transnational policy issues (eg, development, environment, security) related to health. Although foreign policy and health academics and practitioners continue to reflect on the relationship of these two policy sectors and the implications for practitioners engaged in global health diplomacy fields,2–5 there is little in the literature to advance knowledge about what countries are doing to develop and manage policy at the interface of the fields of health and foreign affairs 6–11.…”

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Are national policies on global health in fact national policies on global health governance? A comparison of policy designs from Norway and Switzerland

2017

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BackgroundSince the signing of the Oslo Ministerial Declaration in 2007, the idea that foreign policy formulation should include health considerations has gained traction on the United Nations agenda as evidenced by annual General Assembly resolutions on global health and foreign policy. The adoption of national policies on global health (NPGH) is one way that some member states integrate health and foreign policymaking. This paper explores what these policies intend to do and how countries plan to do it.MethodsUsing a most similar systems design, we carried out a comparative study of two policy documents formally adopted in 2012. We conducted a directed qualitative content analysis of the Norwegian White Paper on Global health in foreign and development policy and the Swiss Health Foreign Policy using Schneider and Ingram's policy design framework. After replicating analysis methods for each document, we analysed them side by side to explore the commonalities and differences across elements of NPGH design.ResultsAnalyses indicate that NPGH expect to influence change outside their borders. Targeting the international level, they aim to affect policy venues, multilateral partnerships and international institutions. Instruments for supporting desired changes are primarily those of health diplomacy, proposed as a tool for negotiating interests and objectives for global health between multiple sectors, used internally in Switzerland and externally in Norway.ConclusionFindings suggest that NPGH designs contribute to constructing the global health governance system by identifying it as a policy target, and policy instruments may elude the health sector actors unless implementation rules explicitly include them. Research should explore how future NPGH designs may construct different kinds of targets as politicised groups of actors on which national governments seek to exercise influence for global health decision-making.

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Oslo Ministerial Declaration—global health: a pressing foreign policy issue of our time

Cited by 163 publications

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Past Fame, Present Frames and Future Flagship? An Exploration of How Health is Positioned in Canadian Foreign Policy

Past Fame, Present Frames and Future Flagship? An Exploration of How Health is Positioned in Canadian Foreign Policy

BRICS’ role in global health and the promotion of universal health coverage: the debate continues

Are national policies on global health in fact national policies on global health governance? A comparison of policy designs from Norway and Switzerland

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