Chile's role in global health diplomacy: a narrative literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global health diplomacy (GHD) has become an important field of investigation due to health concerns increasingly entering the foreign policy domain. Much of the existing academic writing focuses on North-South cooperation in global health, and emphasizes the role of security and economic interests by Northern countries as drivers of GHD. Chile presents a favourable environment for an expanded involvement in future GHD activities. However, there is little knowledge about what has been driving Chile's integration of health into foreign policy, and little effort to appropriate knowledge from international relations theories to better theoretically grasp the emergence of GHD.

Methods

To fill this knowledge gap, we conducted a narrative literature review of the driving

SUBMITTER: Ramirez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240220 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature