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Progress and Opportunities for Strengthening Global Health Security
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
I n today's interconnected world, an infectious disease outbreak that is not rapidly detected and controlled at its source can become a costly global health threat, both in lives lost and economic turmoil (1,2). Every year, thousands of outbreaks occur worldwide, many of which involve pathogens with pandemic potential. Since 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared public health emergencies of international concern for outbreaks
Introductory Chapter: International Health Security Expanded and Re-Defined
IntechOpen eBooks, 2021
2 approaches on rapidly emerging infectious, social, environmental, and biopolitical dilemmas, etc., the authors hope to enlighten and energize readers to become more aware and active in matters related to health security at local, regional, national, international, as well as global scales. 3. Expanding the definition and the scope of health security The traditional definition of what was generally known as "global health security" or GHS is somewhat limited, including primarily bioterrorism and EIDs [13]. In essence, and in a much broader sense, we are dealing with human security. The world is interdependent and we must manage our activities jointly, find common ground, and together deal with the threats with which we are confronted. As Ebola Virus, Zika Virus, and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) have demonstrated, a threat to one (person, region, country, continent) can easily evolve into a threat to all [14-16]. Herein we present facts, experiences and perspectives regarding important currents that affect all societies. Fundamentally, the Editors would like the readers to recognize health security vulnerabilities that they may have not previously considered and to realize opportunities that the readers themselves can create or support across their own communities, countries, and continents [17]. The current book expands on the more traditional and restricted view of IHS to incorporate new and important components of climate change, global health, cyber security, social determinants of health, technology/information management, and several other closely related areas.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
Emerging Infectious Diseases, along with more than 200 other science journals, is dedicating its October 2007 issue to the theme Global Poverty and Human Development. Emerging infections linked to global poverty are examined in the following articles:
The main challenges in pandemic management: understanding global health security's current obstacles
The COVID-19's pandemic highlights the urgency of a global health security and infectious diseases agenda, as well as a need to effectively exercise the health governance mechanisms available or to be devised by the international community. This article seeks to identify and briefly discuss the main challenges pandemic's governance faces today, as to contribute to all efforts to address this need. They are four: the crisis of WHO as the main agent of global health governance; the limits of the international cooperation initiatives for development of national capacities in public health so far; international patent law and the obstacles to universal access to healthcare; and the restrictions to human mobility and the disrespect to human rights in times of health crisis. As an analysis method, extensive academic literature, official documents, and journalistic clippings are used in order to instruct the hypothesis proposed. Therefore, this paper is an analytical effort to bring the issue of global health security closer to the field of International Relations and Social Sciences, valuing the construction of a sustainable and comprehensive approach to global health and pandemic response.