The concept of security has shifted over the past 15 years, and has moved beyond a focus solely on the security of nations to include a focus on the security of individuals and communities. 1 However, it was not until the 1990s that the concept of human security began to take clearer shape after it was reappraised within the UN. In particular, the UN Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Develop...

February 2014 witnessed two remarkable public health events’ start on Earth: The first case of Ebola outbreak in West Africa was confirmed. A total number of suspected and confirmed cases in the Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF) outbreak had increased to 28,637 cases, including 15,249 laboratory-confirmed cases and 11,324 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Spain, and t...

background: in recent years, the concept of health security has received an international dimension. however, despite evident links between health and security the concept of health security is not used in either academic or political discourse in serbia. it comes as no surprise then that even though the issue of security challenges is present in serbian legislation, it has not been incorporate...

gorik ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. this critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. first and foremost, this commentary underlines the impor...

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There is growing acceptance of the concept of health security. However, there are various and incompatible definitions, incomplete elaboration of the concept of health security in public health operational terms, and insufficient reconciliation of the health security concept with community-based primary health care. More important, there are major differences in understanding and use of the con...

the year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. but most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and “the rise of the rest” will define the future of global health. a new mix of health inequity and security challenges has...