Research Catalog

Title

Global health challenges for human security / edited by Lincoln Chen, Jennifer Leaning, and Vasant Narasimhan.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Global Equity Initiative ; Asia Center, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Chen, Lincoln C.
• Harvard University. Asia Center.
• Harvard University. Global Equity Initiative.
• Leaning, Jennifer
• Narasimhan, Vasant.

Description

xxiii, 310 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume explores the evolving relationship between health and security in today's interdependent world, and offers policy guidelines for effective global health action. The 15 chapters in this volume represent invited contributions from distinguished leaders in global health, commissioned by Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative, a research unit supporting the work of the international Commission on Human Security.

Series Statement

Studies in global equity

Uniform Title

Studies in global equity.

Subject

• Basic needs
• Disease Outbreaks
• Epidemics
• Global Health
• Global Health
• Globalization > Health aspects
• Health Policy
• International Cooperation
• Medical policy > International cooperation
• Poverty
• Security Measures
• Violence
• World health

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A human security agenda for global health / Lincoln Chen and Vasant Narasimhan -- Human security and conflict: a comprehensive approach / Jennifer Leaning ... [et al.] -- Health and security in historical perspective / Simon Szreter -- Bioethics, human security, and global health / Giovanni Berlinguer -- Health and security for a global century / Jonas Gahr Store, Jonathan Welch, and Lincoln Chen -- Health and security: globalization of infectious diseases / Mary E. Wilson -- Evolving infectious disease threats to national and global security / David L. Heymann -- HIV/AIDES: the security issue of a lifetime / Alex de Waal -- Aids: a threat to human security / Olive Shisana, Nompumelelo Zungu-Dirwayi, and William Shisana -- Violence and human security: policy linkages / David R. Meddings, Douglas W. Bettcher, and Roya Ghafele -- Gender, health, and security / Sonali Johnson and Claudia Garcia-Moreno.
• Health problems as security risks: global burden of disease assessments / Kenji Shibuya -- Human security and primary health care in Asia: realities and challenges / Mely Caballero-Anthony -- Harnessing social capital for health, security, and development in Bangladesh / Alayne M. Adams and Mushtaque Chowdhury -- Livelihood security through community-based health insurance in India / Mirai Chatterjee and M. Kent Ranson.

ISBN

0674014537 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003022886

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library