Competing Values in Global Health: Is Inclusive Governance Valued Higher Than the Right to Health? A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Document Type : Correspondence

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1 Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore

2 HIV, Health and Development Group, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, United Nations Development Programme, New York City, NY, USA

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We thank those who contributed commentaries on our paper “Competing Frames in Global Health Governance: An Analysis of Stakeholder Influence on the Political Declaration on Non-communicable Diseases.” We read them with great interest and appreciate that our study was described as “rare and elaborate” and a “wakeup up call” for additional empirical analysis to understand the various ways that health-harming industries interfere in non-communicable disease (NCD) policy-making, including at country level. ... (Read more...)

  • epublished Author Accepted Version: March 5, 2022
  • epublished Final Version: March 13, 2022

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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 11, Issue 7
July 2022
Pages 1233-1235

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  • Receive Date: 28 February 2022
  • Accept Date: 02 March 2022
  • First Publish Date: 05 March 2022

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