TY - JOUR ID - 3421 TI - The Global Health Policies of the EU and its Member States: A Common Vision? JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Steurs, Lies AU - Van de Pas, Remco AU - Delputte, Sarah AU - Orbie, Jan AD - Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium AD - Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 7 IS - 5 SP - 433 EP - 442 KW - European Union (EU) KW - Global Health KW - Framing KW - Development Cooperation KW - Foreign Policy DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.112 N2 - Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health scholars have paid little heed to this, despite the large budgets involved in this area. While the European Commission has attempted to define the ‘EU role in Global Health’ in 2010, member states are active in the domain of global health as well. Therefore, this article raises the question to what extent a common ‘EU’ vision on global health exists.   Methods This is examined through a comparative framing analysis of the global health policy documents of the European Commission and five EU member states (France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Denmark). The analysis is informed by a two-layered typology, distinguishing global health from international health and four ‘global health frames,’ namely social justice, security, investment and charity.   Results The findings show that the concept of ‘global health’ has not gained ground the same way within European policy documents. Consequently, there are also differences in how health is being framed. While the European Commission, Belgium, and Denmark clearly support a social justice frame, the global health strategies of the United Kingdom, Germany, and France put an additional focus on the security and investment frames.   Conclusion There are different understandings of global/international health as well as different framings within relevant documents of the EU and its member states. Therefore, the existence of an ‘EU’ vision on global health is questionable. Further research is needed on how this impacts on policy implementation. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3421.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3421_e73ca7fecb48705838aec2fd3291cbea.pdf ER -