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Fighting flu : securitization and the military role in combating influenza / Watterson, Christopher; Kamradt-Scott, Adam

Kamradt-Scott, Adam	Article
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The growing trend toward the securitization of infectious disease has legitimated a role for national militaries in responding to public health crises. This apparent “militarization” of health has met with resistance from the health and security sectors alike, who argue that it risks politicizing health outcomes while also draining limited military resources. This article attempts to place such concerns within the broader historical context of military involvement in public health. With specific reference to pandemic influenza—a disease of great historical import and a current policy priority in the context of securitized global public health—this article details the pedigree of military involvement in fighting the disease and draws on the established record to demonstrate the role that militaries can play in improving public health outcomes. The article argues for an ongoing military role in the global fight against pandemic influenza, both in augmenting civil influenza programs and in improving their own preparation and response mechanisms for future pandemics.

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Defense Planning ; Military Health ; Pandemic Influenza ; Military History

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ID: 109870

Revised international health regulations / Kamradt-Scott, Adam; Rushton, Simon

Rushton, Simon	Journal Article
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2012.

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This paper takes a constructivist approach to examining one of the new norms embodied in the recently revised International Health Regulations (IHR). The paper focuses on the provisions that seek to restrain states from applying disproportionate international travel and trade restrictions in response to a disease outbreak occurring in another country. This new norm, which aims to limit unjustified 'additional health measures', has significant implications for state sovereignty. Using the example of the 2009 H1N1 'swine flu' pandemic, the paper examines whether state behaviour and the discourse surrounding that outbreak supports a constructivist contention that a new norm has been created and that most states can be expected to comply with that norm most of the time. We conclude by discussing what the discourse over H1N1 suggests about the extent to which the new norm concerning additional health measures has been internalized by states.

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Global Health Security ; International Health Regulations ; Norm Compliance ; Norm Life Cycle ; Pandemic Influenza

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Signal recognition during the emergence of pandemic influenza type A/H1N1: a commercial disease intelligence unit’s perspective / Wilson, James M V

James M. Wilson V	Journal Article
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Some public health crises become threats to national security. In April 2009, the Veratect Corporation provided a series of escalated warnings to key members of the international public health community regarding unusual respiratory disease reporting activity in Mexico, later referred to as the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. The warning sequence of the H1N1 influenza pandemic highlighted potential complementarity between that of an intelligence-inspired warning culture vs. a risk-averse, forensically oriented response culture favored by traditional public health practitioners. Both are required to address the current range of difficult-to-predict public health crises that become a threat to national security.

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A/H1N1 ; Pandemic Influenza ; Signal Recognition ; Commercial Disease Intelligence Unit’s

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