Multinational corporations and infectious disease: Embracing human rights management techniques

查看全文 作　　者：Kendyl [1,2,3,4]Salcito;Burton H [5]Singer;Mitchell G [1,2]Weiss;Mirko S [1,2]Winkler;Gary R [4]Krieger;Mark [3,4]Wielga;Jürg [1,2]Utzinger

机构地区：[1]Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute,P.O.Box,CH-4002,Basel,Switzerland;[2]University of Basel,P.O.Box,CH-4003,Basel,Switzerland;[3]NomoGaia,1900 Wazee Street,Suite 303,Denver,CO 80202,USA;[4]NewFields,LLC,Denver,CO 80202,USA;[5]Emerging Pathogens Institute,University of Florida,Gainesville,FL 32610,USA

出　　处：《Infectious Diseases of Poverty》索引2014年第3卷第1期,共14页

基　　金：Special thanks are addressed to Cynthia Donovan for insights into the role of agricultural economics in health considerations.KS is grateful to NewFields for a PhD fellowship,and to NomoGaia for funding research associated with this manuscript. 摘　　要：Background:Global health institutions have called for governments,international organisations and health practitioners to employ a human rights-based approach to infectious diseases.The motivation for a human rights approach is clear:poverty and inequality create conditions for infectious diseases to thrive,and the diseases,in turn,interact with social-ecological systems to promulgate poverty,inequity and indignity.Governments and intergovernmental organisations should be concerned with the control and elimination of these diseases,as widespread infections delay economic growth and contribute to higher healthcare costs and slower processes for realising universal human rights.These social determinants and economic outcomes associated with infectious diseases should interest multinational companies,partly because they have bearing on corporate productivity and,increasingly,because new global norms impose on companies a responsibility to respect human rights,including the right to health.Methods:We reviewed historical and recent developments at the interface of infectious diseases,human rights and multinational corporations.Our investigation was supplemented with field-level insights at corporate capital projects that were developed in areas of high endemicity of infectious diseases,which embraced rights-based disease control strategies.Results:Experience and literature provide a longstanding business case and an emerging social responsibility case for corporations to apply a human rights approach to health programmes at global operations.Indeed,in an increasingly globalised and interconnected world,multinational corporations have an interest,and an important role to play,in advancing rights-based control strategies for infectious diseases.Conclusions:There are new opportunities for governments and international health agencies to enlist corporate business actors in disease control and elimination strategies.Guidance offered by the United Nations in 2011 that is widely embraced by companies,governments and civil society provides a roadmap for engaging business enterprises in rights-based disease management strategies to mitigate disease transmission rates and improve human welfare outcomes. 关键词：Infectious diseases Human rights Systems-based interventions Multinational corporations Corporate social responsibility

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