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Global public health negotiations are complex, multi-stakeholder processes that cover a wide range of issues. Effective health policies require the consideration of health-related issues in trade, environment and other areas, and are best achieved by involving a broad range of both governmental and nongovernmental actors in the policy-making and negotiation processes (Blouin 2007). Any single country—even a relatively wealthy one—has limited ability to influence such negotiations, or even to make itself heard. A country that joins together with other nations and nongovernment actors, however, can significantly increase its leverage in the negotiation process. Indeed, coalition-building strategies offer effective, and often necessary, means to advance one’s health agenda.
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The FCA was founded in 1999. As of 2009, it included 350 organizations from more than 100 countries working on the development, ratification, and implementation of the international treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). See http://www.fctc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=9. .
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See Lax and Sebenius 2006 for a fuller description of “backward mapping.”
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Fairman, D., Chigas, D., McClintock, E., Drager, N. (2012). Coalition-Building and Process Strategies. In: Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2780-9_4
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