Title |
Trade and investment liberalization and Asia’s noncommunicable disease epidemic: a synthesis of data and existing literature
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Published in |
Globalization and Health, September 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/s12992-014-0066-8 |
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Authors |
Phillip Baker, Adrian Kay, Helen Walls |
Abstract |
Trade and investment liberalization (trade liberalization) can promote or harm health. Undoubtedly it has contributed, although unevenly, to Asia's social and economic development over recent decades with resultant gains in life expectancy and living standards. In the absence of public health protections, however, it is also a significant upstream driver of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes through facilitating increased consumption of the 'risk commodities' tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed foods, and by constraining access to NCD medicines. In this paper we describe the NCD burden in Asian countries, trends in risk commodity consumption and the processes by which trade liberalization has occurred in the region and contributed to these trends. We further establish pressing questions for future research on strengthening regulatory capacity to address trade liberalization impacts on risk commodity consumption and health. |
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