Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics - Social science perspectives (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Public Health
Release date:	February 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Mathilde Bourrier • Nathalie Brender • Claudine Burton-Jeangros
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-57899-9
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	1-138-57899-1
Barcode:	9781138578999

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