Safer countries through global health security

Frieden, Thomas R.; Tappero, Jordan W.; Dowell, Scott F.; Hiển, Nguyễn Trần; Guillaume, Florence Duperval; Aceng, Jane Ruth

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60189-6

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“…This epidemic in the three countries and its introduction to seven other countries illustrates how all countries are connected and that a threat in one country is a threat everywhere. Readiness to detect and respond to outbreaks of infectious disease such as Ebola is the goal of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) (17), an initiative supported by countries, government agencies, and international organizations to assist countries with attaining compliance with the International Health Regulations (18) and accelerate progress toward detecting and mitigating infectious disease threats quickly and effectively (19,20). The U.S. government has committed to working in at least 30 countries to implement GHSA, including Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, where CDC has established new country offices to provide direct technical assistance with implementation.…”

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Overview, Control Strategies, and Lessons Learned in the CDC Response to the 2014–2016 Ebola Epidemic

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Overview, Control Strategies, and Lessons Learned in the CDC Response to the 2014–2016 Ebola Epidemic

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“…A shortage of skilled staff, vacant positions and limited funding for infrastructural support were key to the inability of South Africa to move from a reactive position to one of greater pro-activity. Frieden et al (2014) note that a well-trained workforce greatly augments effective epidemic responses and recommend a multidisciplinary public health workforce, with one or more epidemiologists per 200 000 population. There are no current figures on the numbers of epidemiologists in South Africa, but given the overall shortage of health-care workers it is highly unlikely to be as high as the recommendation.…”

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“…Emerging pathogens, such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, and increasing resistance to antibiotics in existing pathogens contribute to this risk. Global travel and the rise of bioterrorism are additional factors threatening public health and safety (Frieden et al, 2014). Frieden et al (2014) outline three components of government responsibility essential to ensuring public health security: 1) prevention; 2) early detection, and 3) timely and adequate response.…”

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“…Global travel and the rise of bioterrorism are additional factors threatening public health and safety (Frieden et al, 2014). Frieden et al (2014) outline three components of government responsibility essential to ensuring public health security: 1) prevention; 2) early detection, and 3) timely and adequate response. Prevention includes having systems, policies and procedures in place to mitigate avoidable outbreaks.…”

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“…South Africa is one of 194 signatory countries that have committed to improving capacity to better meet the requirements of the IHR (Frieden et al, 2014).…”

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COVID-19 pandemic is a stark example of health security politics, despite the pandemic not being currently labeled as a health security concern in political discourse. With high levels of morbidity and mortality globally and a highly contagious pathogen this pandemic is a prime and unprecedented example of a global health security threat. Analyses of the politics and practicalities of confronting health-related threats, of policy options and institutional approaches, however, hinge on the way these challenges are constructed and on the way the dimensions of the concept of health security are charted. In 2015 Horton and Das noted that there was no simple definition of health security. [5] Indeed, there has been little consensus among analysts over the meaning and parameters of health security. [16-19] These disagreements, Aldis argues, have effects beyond analytical debates, as they hinder communications and collaboration on global health initiatives, creating confusion and mistrust among stakeholders. [18] They also inhibit comparative evaluation, critique of existing analysis, or the possibility of consistent policy recommendations. Conceptual analyses of the two constitutive parts of health security illustrate the difficulties of coming up with a simple definition and the inherent tensions and contestations in such debates. Given these difficulties, it is argued here that a framework for conceptual analysis of "health security," instead of a fixed definition, would provide valuable space to evaluate the key features of existing analysis, the explicit and implicit assumptions about the nature and parameters of health security politics underpinning current policy responses, as well as possible alternative conceptualizations and ways of thinking about health security. Health security politics is a burgeoning and contested field of analysis and practice with the potential to affect security thinking beyond its own parameters. This article aims to contribute to debates both about the scope and meaning of health security and about the scope and meaning of security more broadly. To achieve this, it first presents a brief review of the scope and focus of contemporary conceptual debates of health security; second, it applies Baldwin's [20] framework for the concept of security to demonstrate how conservative the current definition of health security is; and thirdly, it proposes an alternative framing with a view to demonstrate the benefits of thinking about health security in broader more inclusive ways, which has the potential to improve global responses to current and future health-related challenges. Discussions of the politics and practicalities of confronting health security challenges-from infectious disease outbreaks to antimicrobial resistance and the silent epidemic of noncommunicable diseases-hinge on the conceptualization of health security. There is no consensus among analysts about the specific parameters of health security. This inhibits comparative evaluation and critique, and affects the consistency of a...

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Safer countries through global health security

Cited by 56 publications

References 12 publications

Overview, Control Strategies, and Lessons Learned in the CDC Response to the 2014–2016 Ebola Epidemic

Overview, Control Strategies, and Lessons Learned in the CDC Response to the 2014–2016 Ebola Epidemic

The State of Biosafety and Biosecurity in South Africa

Dimensions of Health Security—A Conceptual Analysis

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