Trade & Health
Trade agreements and the cross-border flows of goods, services and capital can have a number of positive and negative impacts on health systems and population health. Our research program examines these diverse linkages and proposes policy option in order to mitigate the potential health risks associated to international trade and to harness its benefits.
Blouin, Chantal, "Trade in health services: Can it improve access to health care for poor people?". Global Social Policy , October 2010.
Hawkes, Corinna, Chantal Blouin, Laurette Dubé, Nick Drager and Spencer Henson (eds). Trade, Food, Diet and Health: Perspectives and Policy Options. Oxford, Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
Ron Labonte, Chantal Blouin and Lisa Forman, Trade, Growth and Population Health: An Introductory Review. (Ottawa, Institute for Population Health, 2010).
Blouin, Chantal, Mickey Chopra and Rolph Van Der Hoeven, “Trade and Social Determinants of Health”, The Lancet, volume 373, no 9662, February 7-13, 2009.
Labonté, Ronald, Chantal Blouin and Lisa Forman, “Trade and Health” in Kay, Adrian and Owain David Williams (Eds.) Global Health Governance: Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Blouin, Chantal, Jody Heymann and Nick Drager (eds) Trade and Health: Seeking Common Ground (McGill/Queens University Press, 2008).
Blouin, Chantal, Trade and Health in Asia: Challenges of Globalisation, Background papers for the Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2006, Published by UNDP Regional Centre, Columbo, 2008.
Blouin, Chantal, Aniket Bhushan, Sophia Murphy and Ben Warren, Trade Liberalization: Synthesis Paper, WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Globalization Knowledge Network Research Papers, Published by Institute for Population Health, University of Ottawa, April 2007.
Blouin, Chantal, “Health, trade policy and foreign policy: Getting from conflicting interests to policy coherence”, Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, March 2007.
Blouin, Chantal, Nick Drager and Richard Smith (eds) International Trade in Health Services and the GATS (World Bank, 2006)
