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076263
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Hampshire, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006.
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xvi, 247p.
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Global security in changing world
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9780754647737
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 052265 | 327.1/MAC 052265 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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084016
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2008.
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The `securitization' of health has generated considerable debate. In public health, the debate focuses mainly on health effects. Although securitization may refocus attention and resources toward certain health issues, it may focus undue attention on a few issues or on the military aspects of issues to the detriment of a broad range of health issues and their human rights aspects. In international relations, the concern is the effect on security analysis and policy. While some welcome a broadening of the security agenda to include items such as health, others are concerned that analytical rigour and operational effectiveness are lost. This article argues that, normative concerns notwithstanding, securitizing is occurring as a result of perceived changes, associated with globalization, that are creating changes in the nature or degree of threats. But, in international relations, security is largely a social construction, as the Copenhagen School claims. Contemporary social struggles are ongoing around competitions to define security. The article argues that human security is a concept that has considerable relevance for understanding the nature of change that is producing new or intensified threats. It also offers conceptual space for analyzing what security is provided and for whom in the changing world order.
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089140
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2009.
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At population levels, health outcomes are determined more by social conditions than by either biology or technological interventions. Therefore, entrenched and increasing inequalities associated with global transformations in political economy are among the most significant causal factors for so-called 'global health' problems that disproportionately afflict sub-Saharan Africans. Growing attention is being paid to the social causes of ill health, as evidenced in the WHO's recently introduced Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. However, the predominant paradigm continues to support a biotechnical/clinical health model that privileges pharmaceutical treatment of individual diseases over support for broader social change that would include improved broadly based national health systems as well as revised international economic structures. This paper examines the struggle involved in setting the normative framework for health in sub-Saharan Africa and the roles of major external actors in setting the policy agenda
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