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Global health security : a blueprint for the future / Lawrence O. Gostin.
LIBRA RA441 .G67 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gostin, Lawrence O. (Lawrence Ogalthorpe), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World health.
- Communicable diseases--Prevention.
- Communicable diseases.
- Biosecurity.
- Public health.
- Security, International.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In an age of pandemics, no country can achieve public health on its own. Health security expert Lawrence O. Gostin examines the key cross-border threats to our well-being, from infectious diseases to bioterrorism, and proposes pragmatic solutions: targeted research, robust international institutions, and tools for effective global action"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Growing Threats
- 1. The Impending Threat
- 2. The Human Link
- 3. Humanity's Biggest Killer
- 4. Disease by Decision: Human-Induced Threats to Biosafety and Biosecurity
- 5. Antimicrobial Resistance: Superbugs and the Imperative to Stop Tnem
- 6. The Climate Crisis
- pt. II From Risk to Action
- 7. Governing Global Health Security
- 8. International Pathogen Sharing and Global Health Equity
- 9. Universal Health Coverage
- 10. Global Medical War Chest.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780674976610
- 0674976614
- OCLC:
- 1240774293
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