ABSTRACT
Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions, aimed at mitigating the spread of disease in a globalized world. During a crisis, however, global health actions – including planning and organizing, communicating about risk, and cost–benefit evaluations – aren’t usually part of a single, integrated global response. Arguing that an uncoordinated approach can be challenged by local conditions and expectations, generating a wide range of resistance and difficulties, this volume provides important insights for future outbreak management and global health governance.
Drawing on experiences with A(H1N1) and Ebola virus disease, the book is divided into three parts looking at how responses to global health crises have developed, lessons learned from particular pandemics and the ethical implications of our management of them. Individual chapters focus on, among other issues, financing, cost–benefit analysis, matrix management, risk communication and organizational strategies.
Taking a social science perspective, this valuable book outlines the current state of global health emergency responses and explores ways in which they can be improved. It is a useful read for academics and practitioners interested in global health, the sociology of health and illness, health economics and emergency management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Setting the stage
chapter 1|31 pages
The challenges of building pandemic response systems based on unique cases
part �II|4 pages
Lessons learned from the A(H1N1) pandemic and 2014 Ebola virus disease
chapter 3|32 pages
Comparing the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic and 2014 Ebola virus disease
chapter 5|18 pages
Emergency capabilities
chapter 8|25 pages
Financing the crisis
chapter 9|30 pages
The organizational puzzle of the Global Health System
part III|1 pages
Complementing views