TY - JOUR ID - 3272 TI - Trade Policy and Health: Adding Retrospective Studies to the Research Agenda; Comment on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Blouin, Chantal AD - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on International Trade and Investment, Institute for Advanced International Studies (HEI), Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 243 EP - 244 KW - Trade and Investment Policy KW - Population Health KW - Social and Political Determinants of Health KW - Regulatory Chill DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.123 N2 - Prospective studies of the potential health consequences of trade and investment treaties, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are critical. These studies can make visible to trade policy-makers the potential negative impacts associated to such treaties and can influence the outcomes of such negotiations. However, few researchers have examined retrospectively the consequences of trade agreements. With more than 400 trade agreements and more than 2000 investment treaties currently in force, researchers have a large corpus of agreements to analyse in order to assess not only their potential impacts on health system and population health, but also their actual impacts. This comment suggests some research questions that would benefit from retrospective inquiry. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3272.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3272_c4d97ff1c9dcf1d6efb4b76349871446.pdf ER -