Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond

Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent,Detect,and Respond offers a vision for a more protected and safer global public health future by examining factors that have led to recent public health emergencies and proposing novel approaches for the present and future.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 570 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

The book explores the factors that have contributed to recent public health emergencies and offers a vision for a better protected global environment. The authors examine the history of global health security, governance, and legal structures, with an eye toward innovative approaches for the present and future. The book presents a roadmap for a more secure and safer global public health future, outlining the actions needed to achieve it. It emphasizes the prevention of future pandemics, recognizing that they are both feasible and necessary.

Major topics examined from a public health perspective include global health security, the growing concept of One Health, epidemic and pandemic prevention, detection, and response, reviews of past public health emergencies of international concern, roles of information and communication technology, human-made public health threats, and legal and ethical issues.

Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond offers valuable academic substance and insights for researchers and practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of the causes of health emergencies and the actions we can take to prepare. It serves as a crucial resource for policymakers, healthcare professionals, and individuals interested in global health security.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 234 x 191 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323909457