Managing Global Health Security [electronic resource] : The World Health Organization and Disease Outbreak Control /
Kamradt-Scott, A.author.
Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948. He also examines the organization's prospects for managing global health security now and into the future.
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Cover; Managing Global Health Security; Contents; List of Table; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Why this book?; Theories, distinctions, and definitions; Structure of the book; 1: The Legal Basis for the WHO's Global Health Security Mandate and Authority; The WHO's historical origins and ethos; Disease eradication and the envisaged authority of the WHO; The limits of the WHO's authority and autonomy; Conclusion; 2: The WHO's Classical Approach to Disease Eradication; The Malaria Eradication Programme; The Smallpox Eradication Programme; The WHO and TB
The classical approach examinedConclusion; 3: Securitization and SARS: A New Framing?; The WHO in 2003; The WHO response to SARS; Real-time epidemic intelligence coordinator; Real-time principal policy adviser; Government assessor/critic; Conclusion; 4: New Powers for a New Age? Revising and Updating the IHR; Background to the IHR revision process; The IHR revision process begins; The IHR Intergovernmental Working Group negotiations; Conclusion; 5: Pandemic Influenza: 'The Most Feared Security Threat'; First days: the WHO and flu; The emergence of H5N1 and the WHO's securitization of flu
The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemicConclusion; 6: Global Health Security and Its Discontents; Securitization's discontents; So, what happens now?; Conclusion; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Introduction; 1 The Legal Basis for the WHO's Global Health Security Mandate and Authority; 2 The WHO's Classical Approach to Disease Eradication; 3 Securitization and SARS: A New Framing?; 4 New Powers for a New Age? Revising and Updating the IHR; 5 Pandemic Influenza: 'The Most Feared Security Threat'; 6 Global Health Security and Its Discontents; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948. He also examines the organization's prospects for managing global health security now and into the future.
World Health Organization.
Social medicine.
Social policy.
Economic development.
International organization.
Sociology.
Medicine.
Medical Sociology.
Social Policy.
Development Studies.
International Organization.
Sociology, general.
Medicine/Public Health, general.