Recent work in international relations theory argues that international regimes do not develop in isolation, as previously assumed, but evolve as open systems that interact with other regimes. The implications of this insight’s for sustainable development remains underexplored. Even thought environmental protection and health promotion are clearly interconnected at the impact level, it remains unclear how global environmental governance interacts with global health governance at the institutional level. In order to fill this gap, this article aims to assess how environmental treaties contribute to global health governance. To assess how environmental treaties contribute to global health governance, we conducted a content analysis of 2280 international environmental treaties. For each of these treaties, we measure the type and number of health-related provisions in these treaties. The result is the Health and Environment Interplay Database (HEIDI), which we make public with the publication of this article. This new database reveals that more than 300 environmental treaties have health-related provisions. We conclude that the global environmental regime contributes significantly to the institutionalization of the global health regime, considering that the health regime includes itself very few treaties focusing primarily on health. When reflecting on how global governance can improve population health, decision makers should not only consider the instruments available to them within the realm of global health institutions. They should broaden their perspectives to integrate the contribution of other global regimes, such as the global environmental regime.

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环境条约如何促进全球卫生治理

国际关系理论的最新研究认为，国际制度并非像以前所假定的那样孤立地发展，而是作为与其他制度相互作用的开放系统而发展的。这种洞察力对可持续发展的意义仍未得到充分探索。即使认为环境保护和促进健康在影响水平上显然是相互联系的，但仍不清楚全球环境治理如何与机构层面的全球健康治理相互作用。为了填补这一空白，本文旨在评估环境条约如何促进全球卫生治理。为了评估环境条约如何对全球卫生治理做出贡献，我们对2280项国际环境条约进行了内容分析。对于这些条约中的每一个，我们衡量这些条约中与健康有关的规定的类型和数量。结果就是健康与环境相互作用数据库（HEIDI），我们在本文发布时将其公开。这个新的数据库揭示了300多个环境条约中有与健康相关的规定。我们得出的结论是，考虑到卫生制度本身包括很少的主要侧重于健康的条约，因此全球环境制度对全球卫生制度的制度化做出了重大贡献。在反思全球治理如何改善人口健康时，决策者不仅应考虑全球卫生机构范围内对他们可用的手段。他们应拓宽视野，以整合其他全球制度的贡献，