{"id":2766,"date":"2014-08-14T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2014-08-14T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:05:41","slug":"the-trans-pacific-partnership-and-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-trans-pacific-partnership-and-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Public Health<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A group of doctors has published an editorial raising concerns about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) &#8211; a trade agreement between Canada and eleven other Pacific Rim countries &#8211; and the effect it could have on the public health system. In particular the authors cite possible changes to intellectual property rules that could impact medications or diagnostic methods. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors\u00a0also point to trade provisions that could make it more difficult to regulate against unhealthy behaviours like drinking or smoking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openmedicine.ca\/article\/view\/646\/559\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0the journal\u00a0<em>Open Medicine\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 12, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kapil Khatter, University of Ottawa,\u00a0Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ronald Labonte, University of Ottawa, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of doctors has published an editorial raising concerns about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) &#8211; a trade agreement between Canada and eleven other Pacific Rim countries &#8211; and the effect it could have on the public health system. In particular the authors cite possible changes to intellectual property rules that could impact medications or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2120,2118,1272,51,2117,50,476,1666,2119,2116],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-alcohol","tag-drinking","tag-economics","tag-health","tag-international-trade","tag-ontario","tag-public-health","tag-smoking","tag-tobacco","tag-trade"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-IC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}