Selected article for: "disease threat and infectious disease"

Author: Feldbaum, Harley; Lee, Kelley; Michaud, Joshua
Title: Global Health and Foreign Policy
  • Document date: 2010_4_27
  • ID: 1cpvboto_51
    Snippet: The close association between public health and national security was broken in the 20th century by decolonization, improved sanitation, and the introduction of vaccines and antibiotics, which together reduced the threat of disease to powerful countries and their interests (121) , and by the specter of nuclear weapons, which came to dominate national security studies (114) . However, by the 1990s, perceptions of increased vulnerability to infecti.....
    Document: The close association between public health and national security was broken in the 20th century by decolonization, improved sanitation, and the introduction of vaccines and antibiotics, which together reduced the threat of disease to powerful countries and their interests (121) , and by the specter of nuclear weapons, which came to dominate national security studies (114) . However, by the 1990s, perceptions of increased vulnerability to infectious disease threats because of increased global interdependence brought infectious diseases back onto national security agendas. This was prominently expressed by the US Institute of Medicine: ''[I]n the context of infectious diseases, there is nowhere in the world from which we are remote and no one from whom we are disconnected'' (122, p. V).

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