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Garde, Amandine --- "Global health law and non-communicable disease prevention: maximizing opportunities by understanding constraints" [2018] ELECD 1043; in Burci, Gian Luca; Toebes, Brigit (eds), "Research Handbook on Global Health Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 389

Book Title: Research Handbook on Global Health Law

Editor(s): Burci, Gian Luca; Toebes, Brigit

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785366536

Section: Chapter 13

Section Title: Global health law and non-communicable disease prevention: maximizing opportunities by understanding constraints

Author(s): Garde, Amandine

Number of pages: 38

Abstract/Description:

There is increasing recognition that the law provides significant opportunities to improve the environment in which we live and thus help prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, the opportunities that the law offers can only be maximized if the constraints which the law imposes on policy makers are understood and adequately taken into account at all stages of the policy process. After presenting the regulatory responses that the international community has urged States to adopt as part of effective NCD prevention strategies, this chapter considers the industry-led challenges anchored in international trade law that States have faced when regulating the tobacco, alcohol and food industries. It then focuses on the potential of international human rights for the NCD prevention agenda, before highlighting some practical considerations that should be borne in mind when building legal capacity in this field.