Foreign Affairs
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Snapshot,
May 24, 2012
Healthy Governance
By Devi Sridhar, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Derek Yach

For decades, the WHO has debated whether to address specific diseases or to broadly strengthen healthcare systems. With the increasing threat of noncommunicable diseases, however, the WHO has to double down on the latter, and convince states that health concerns are integral to decisions about trade, agriculture, and urban planning — the whole of government.