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Disaster response and epidemic response is addressed but on-the-field EMS isn't mentioned. This article focuses more on policies and organization than specifics.
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They analyzed reports, policies, and the history of health response systems in order to come to their conclusions.
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"Through close examination of concrete settings in which biosecurity interventions are being articulated, these chapters show that ways of understanding and intervening in contemporary threats to healt are still in formation: 'biosecurity' does not name stable or cleary define understanding and strategies, but rather a number of overlapping and rapidly changing problem areas."
"After considerable delay, we have recently seen the implementation of large-scale responses to these new infectious desiease threats that bring together governmental, multilater, and philanthropic organizations."
"...newly perceived threats to health... have placed greater pressure on public health departments and national security officials to develop an approach to disease events not easily managed thorugh the traditional paradigm of public health."
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The WHO, a well respected organization, pushed for a similar framework of 'public health security'.
Legislation in the United States that supported a global model of health care in order to address pandemics and other hazards.
Growing issues with pathogenicity and mutability in diseases that makes it harder to deal with retroactively instead of proactively.
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I researched WHO. They missed an oppritunity to title their "About Us" page 'Who, we are'
I researched growing concerns on pathogenicity and mutating diseases.
I researched referenced food issues that have occured relating to health.
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It is necessary, in order to properly address growing global disasters and health-threats such as epidemics, to have a global approach to health instead of a national focus.
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The two authors reference it in their book, Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. Otherwise I couldn't find anything.
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Andrew Lakoff is a cultural anthropologist at University of Southern California. He studies social theory and medical anthropology.
Stephen Collier is a doctor of philosophy, derpartment of Anthropology, at the University of California Berkeley. He also studies social theory and social policy.
Both have studied policies on medical aid and global health.
Some othe rpublications:
"Vaccine Politics and the Management of Public Reason"
"Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary"
"Real-Time Biopolitics: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Public Health"
"Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency"