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From SARS to Avian Influenza: The Role of International Factors in China's Approach to Infectious Disease Control
BACKGROUND: Over the past decades global environmental change, globalization, urbanization, and the rise in movement of people have increased the risk for pandemic disease outbreaks. As environmental exposures do not respect state borders, a globalist concept of global health response has developed,...
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The Author. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27325075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.024 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Over the past decades global environmental change, globalization, urbanization, and the rise in movement of people have increased the risk for pandemic disease outbreaks. As environmental exposures do not respect state borders, a globalist concept of global health response has developed, which requires transparency and cooperation for coordinated responses to disease outbreaks. Countries that avoid cooperation on health issues for social or political reasons can endanger the global community. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the rapid change in China's infectious disease policy between 2000 and 2013, from actively rejecting the assistance of international health experts during the HIV/AIDS and severe acute respiratory syndrome crises to following best-practice disease response policies and cooperating with international health actors during the 2013 avian influenza outbreak. METHODS: Using international relations theory, I examined whether international political factors had a major influence on this change. Using the case studies of international reputation, socialization with international organizations, and the securitization of infectious disease, this study examined the influence of international and domestic pressures on Chinese infectious disease policy. FINDINGS: Although international relations theory, especially theories popular in global health diplomacy literature, provide valuable insight into the role of international factors and foreign policy interests in China's changing approach to infectious disease control, it cannot provide viable explanations without considering the domestic interests of the Chinese government. CONCLUSION: Analysis of state responses to infectious disease using international relations theories must consider domestic political factors. |
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spelling | pubmed-71039442020-03-31 From SARS to Avian Influenza: The Role of International Factors in China's Approach to Infectious Disease Control Goldizen, Fiona C. Ann Glob Health Article BACKGROUND: Over the past decades global environmental change, globalization, urbanization, and the rise in movement of people have increased the risk for pandemic disease outbreaks. As environmental exposures do not respect state borders, a globalist concept of global health response has developed, which requires transparency and cooperation for coordinated responses to disease outbreaks. Countries that avoid cooperation on health issues for social or political reasons can endanger the global community. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the rapid change in China's infectious disease policy between 2000 and 2013, from actively rejecting the assistance of international health experts during the HIV/AIDS and severe acute respiratory syndrome crises to following best-practice disease response policies and cooperating with international health actors during the 2013 avian influenza outbreak. METHODS: Using international relations theory, I examined whether international political factors had a major influence on this change. Using the case studies of international reputation, socialization with international organizations, and the securitization of infectious disease, this study examined the influence of international and domestic pressures on Chinese infectious disease policy. FINDINGS: Although international relations theory, especially theories popular in global health diplomacy literature, provide valuable insight into the role of international factors and foreign policy interests in China's changing approach to infectious disease control, it cannot provide viable explanations without considering the domestic interests of the Chinese government. CONCLUSION: Analysis of state responses to infectious disease using international relations theories must consider domestic political factors. The Author. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 2016 2016-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7103944/ /pubmed/27325075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.024 Text en © 2016 The Author Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Goldizen, Fiona C. From SARS to Avian Influenza: The Role of International Factors in China's Approach to Infectious Disease Control |
title | From SARS to Avian Influenza: The Role of International Factors in China's Approach to Infectious Disease Control |
title_full | From SARS to Avian Influenza: The Role of International Factors in China's Approach to Infectious Disease Control |
title_fullStr | From SARS to Avian Influenza: The Role of International Factors in China's Approach to Infectious Disease Control |
title_full_unstemmed | From SARS to Avian Influenza: The Role of International Factors in China's Approach to Infectious Disease Control |
title_short | From SARS to Avian Influenza: The Role of International Factors in China's Approach to Infectious Disease Control |
title_sort | from sars to avian influenza: the role of international factors in china's approach to infectious disease control |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27325075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.01.024 |
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