Health and foreign policy: moving forward with greater focus

Zwi, Anthony B; Wyn Owen, John; Ingram, Alan

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb05854.x

Topics

Global health

Improving global health requires foreign policy reform and more aid

1 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
2 The Nuffield Trust, London.

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Acknowledgements:

Acknowledgement: The Global Health and Foreign Policy Symposium on which this editorial and the collection of articles in this issue of the Journal are based was organised by Professor Michael Reid, and the authors of this article. Deborah Raphael and Suzanne Pope provided valuable assistance. The Nuffield Trust provided support in a variety of ways.

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