Global Health Challenges for Human Security (Studies in Global Equity) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674014537 ISBN 13: 9780674014534

Publisher: Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University, 2004

Synopsis

The goals of health and human security are fundamentally valued in all societies, yet the breadth of their interconnections are not properly understood. This volume explores the evolving relationship between health and security in today's interdependent world, and offers policy guidelines for global health action.

This volume underscores three basic principles. First, recent developments in the changing security landscape present enormous challenges for human security and global health. Second, although the connections between health and security are long-standing, the current context of new conflicts, pervasive poverty, and accelerating global flows has brought the fields closer together. Finally, a human security approach dependent upon individual and collective action can identify new strategies for meeting the goals of global health and security.

The distinguished contributions to this volume were commissioned by Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative, a research unit supporting the work of the International Commission on Human Security.

About this title

About the Author:

Lincoln C. Chen is the President of the Chinal Medical Board.

About this edition

• Publisher: Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0674014537
• ISBN 13: 9780674014534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Chen Lincoln C., Leaning M.D. Jennifer, Narasimhan Vasant