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Table 1 Health and Foreign Policy Key Documents

From: Framing health and foreign policy: lessons for global health diplomacy

Title (Abbreviated)

Country, Year

Comment, Source

Swiss Health Foreign Policy: Agreement on Health Foreign Policy Objectives *[5]

(FDHA)

Switzerland, 2006

Published by Federal Office of Public Health and Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Health is Global: a UK Government Strategy *[6, 7]

(UKHG) and (UKHG Annex)

UK, 2008

Issued by the Department of Health

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Departmental Strategic Objectives 2008/09 - 2010/11 # [8]

(UKDSO)

UK, 2008

Issued by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The National Security Strategy of the United Kingdom: Security in an interdependent world # [9]

(UKFP)

UK, 2008

Issued by the Cabinet Office

Shared Responsibility: Sweden's Policy for Global Development # [10]

(SW)

Sweden, 2003

Legislation requiring annual report to parliament on how all foreign policies worked towards goal of global development (including health)

Oslo Ministerial Declaration--Global Health: A Pressing Foreign Policy Issue of Our Time § [1]

(OSLO)

Norway, France, Brazil, Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa and Thailand, 2007

Statement issued by foreign ministers

Meeting global challenges: international cooperation in the national interest. † [11]

(SW-GPG)

Sweden, 2006

Issued by the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Coherent for Development? How coherent Norwegian policies can assist development in poor countries † [12]

(PCC)

Norway, 2008

Report of a two-year all party commission,

Official Norwegian Reports

Foreign policy and global health: Six national strategies ‡ [13]

(WHO-GHD)

World Health Organization

FTD draft working paper, forthcoming:

Geneva: World Health Organization.

Report of six countries' experiences in global health diplomacy first presented at the Prince Mahidol Awards Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, January 2009

  1. * Official policy statement on health and foreign policy
  2. # Official policy statement on general global development and foreign policy
  3. § Intergovernmental joint consensus statement
  4. † Advisory commission reports
  5. ‡ Commentaries by government officials engaged in global health diplomacy