Health has long been intertwined with the foreign policies of states. In recent years, however, global health issues have risen to the highest levels of international politics and have become accepted as legitimate issues in foreign policy. This elevated political priority is in many ways a welcome development for proponents of global health, and it has resulted in increased funding for and attention to select global health issues. However, there has been less examination of the tensions that characterize the relationship between global health and foreign policy and of the potential effects of linking global health efforts with the foreign-policy interests of states. In this paper, the authors review the relationship between global health and foreign policy by examining the roles of health across 4 major components of foreign policy: aid, trade, diplomacy, and national security. For each of these aspects of foreign policy, the authors review current and historical issues and discuss how foreign-policy interests have aided or impeded global health efforts. The increasing relevance of global health to foreign policy holds both opportunities and dangers for global efforts to improve health.

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全球卫生和外交政策。

长期以来，卫生一直与各国的外交政策交织在一起。然而，近年来，全球健康问题已上升到国际政治的最高级别，并已被视为外交政策中的合法问题。这一提升的政治优先事项在许多方面对全球卫生的支持者来说是一个受欢迎的发展，它导致对某些全球卫生问题的资金和关注增加。然而，对于表征全球卫生与外交政策之间关系的紧张局势以及将全球卫生努力与国家外交政策利益联系起来的潜在影响，很少有人研究。在本文中，作者通过研究卫生在外交政策的 4 个主要组成部分中的作用，回顾了全球卫生与外交政策之间的关系：援助、贸易、外交和国家安全。对于外交政策的每一个方面，作者都回顾了当前和历史问题，并讨论了外交政策利益如何帮助或阻碍了全球卫生工作。全球卫生与外交政策的相关性日益增加，这对全球改善卫生的努力既带来机遇，也带来危险。