Managing global health security
Subtitle: the World Health Organization and disease outbreak control
By: Adam Kamradt-Scott, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780230369313
Subjects: World Health Organization; International Cooperation; Legislation & jurisprudence; Health Policy; Health Services Administration; Communicable Disease Control; Disease Outbreaks; Prevention & control; Global Health
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: The legal basis for the WHO's global health security mandate and authority; title: The WHO's classical approach to disease eradication; title: Securitization and SARS : a new framing?; title: New powers for a new age? : revising and updating the IHR; title: Pandemic influenza : 'the most feared security threat'; title: Global health security and its discontents.