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Medical Health Policy

Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India

Assessing Sustainable Development Goals

edited by Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada & Ilan Vertinsky

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2023
Category
Health Policy, Health, Asian Studies, Disease & Health Issues, International
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774867733
    Publish Date
    Feb 2023
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774867702
    Publish Date
    Feb 2023
    List Price
    $89.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774867719
    Publish Date
    Feb 2024
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a newfound emphasis on the importance of global health security: the idea that countries must coordinate their efforts globally to address pressing international public health threats while meeting their own specific domestic health care needs. Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India investigates how global health security is evolving in three major Asian countries that have committed to adhering to the international health standards and targets in accordance with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Contributors explore three areas of global health security in the SDG agenda: strengthening access to primary health care, protecting and promoting public health, and integrating global markets into health care provision. As this comprehensive volume demonstrates, despite having to balance cost and affordability, stakeholder demands, political ideology, and global economic pressures with decisions about how to best meet global health standards, all three countries have made significant advances in health law and policy over the past decade.

About the authors

Les Jacobs is professor of law and society and political science, and director of the Institute for Social Research at York University. He is also executive director of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, the country’s leading pan-Canadian think tank devoted to access-to-justice issues, housed at Osgoode Hall Law School. He has held a range of distinguished visiting appointments at other universities, including Harvard Law School; the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies; the Law Commission of Canada; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Toronto; Emory University; and Waseda Law School, Tokyo. His many other books include Rights and Deprivation (1993); The Democratic Politics of Vision (1997); Pursuing Equal Opportunities (2004); Balancing Competing Human Rights in a Diverse Society (2012); and Linking Global Trade and Human Rights: New Policy Space in Hard Economic Times (2014).

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Editorial Reviews

"Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India: Assessing Sustainable Development Goals is an essential contribution to the discipline of global health security, as it addresses global health crises and challenges faced by countries in achieving their sustainable development goals (SDGs)."

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