Essays on Strategy and Public Health: The Systematic Reconfiguration of Power Relations

This book explores the similarities and differences between strategy in armed conflict and strategy in public health, using information and control theories to analyze strategy as an exchange of messages between adversaries. The first part examines four case histories, while the final chapter offers a strategic synthesis applicable to public health.

Format: Hardback
Length: 231 pages
Publication date: 02 April 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This book is a comprehensive collection of essays that delve into the similarities and differences between strategy in armed conflict and strategy in public health. The first part of the book employs the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories to examine strategy as an exchange of messages between adversaries, within the framework of underlying power relations. The messages to be exchanged are constructed from a vast 'alphabet of tactics available to each contender, in a broad sense. The second part of the book explores four case histories from this perspective, spanning from agribusiness-generated pandemics to tuberculosis and COVID-19. The final chapter aims to provide a strategic synthesis that is more specifically applicable to public health than to the remarkably close parallel of armed conflict. By adopting a unique approach to public health tactics and strategy, this volume will appeal to social epidemiologists, public health economists, public policy scientists, as well as public health researchers and practitioners.

Weight: 547g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030835774
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022