Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on International Trade and Investment, Institute for Advanced International Studies (HEI), Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017 Apr 1;6(4):243-244. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.123.
Prospective studies of the potential health consequences of trade and investment treaties, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are critical. These studies can make visible to trade policy-makers the potential negative impacts associated to such treaties and can influence the outcomes of such negotiations. However, few researchers have examined retrospectively the consequences of trade agreements. With more than 400 trade agreements and more than 2000 investment treaties currently in force, researchers have a large corpus of agreements to analyse in order to assess not only their potential impacts on health system and population health, but also their actual impacts. This comment suggests some research questions that would benefit from retrospective inquiry.
对于贸易和投资条约（如跨太平洋伙伴关系协定）可能对健康造成的影响进行前瞻性研究至关重要。这些研究可以让贸易政策制定者看到此类条约可能带来的负面影响，并影响此类谈判的结果。然而，很少有研究人员回顾性地研究贸易协定的后果。目前有 400 多项贸易协定和 2000 多项投资条约生效，研究人员有大量的协定可供分析，以便评估它们对卫生系统和人口健康的潜在影响，以及它们的实际影响。本评论提出了一些研究问题，这些问题将受益于回顾性调查。
