K Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 6314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3625-1915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 114 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 114 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
News reporting on travel restrictions between Canada and the US during the Covid-19 pandemic
The worldwide use of different types of travel measures during the COVID-19 pandemic was unprecedented. However, there remains need for fuller understanding of how to apply travel measures for public health benefit, while taking account of their social and economic impacts, particularly on equity-deserving populations. This paper presents an equity analysis of 41 online news articles about travel restrictions (as one type of travel measure) on cr…
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos
The poor management of public health risks associated with travel by most countries proved among the most contentious issue areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from previous outbreaks suggested travel restrictions were largely unnecessary and counterproductive to timely reporting. This led to initial WHO recommendations against the use of travel restrictions. Substantial evidence of the role of human travel in spreading SARS-CoV-2 worldw…
The use of quarantine as an international travel measure during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtually all countries used a range of measures to mitigate the risks of virus introduction and onward transmission via international travel. Quarantine was a key international travel measure (ITM) used by governments to achieve public health goals. However, the highly varied ways in which quarantine was implemented makes lesson learning for future pandemics challenging. Moreover, most studies overlook the secondary…
One Health for all
The One Health concept emphasizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health. While the term “One Health” has only gained traction in this century, the idea itself is much older. For instance, many Indigenous Peoples and local communities have traditional cosmologies that recognize the interconnectedness of the ecosystem and the role of humans within it [1, 2]. It is the industrialized-focused worldview that has only recently c…
Winds of change
Across the three countries, there was a focus on increasing Indigenous leadership in the development and implementation of tobacco control programmes. For example, in Australia, the Tackling Indigenous Smoking programme focuses on codesigning culturally tailored interventions to address high smoking rates and overcome challenges, particularly in remote communities, while addressing gaps in providing culturally safe supports. Indigenous leadership…
Applying a Participatory Design Model-Making Engagement Activity to Understand How Different Stakeholders Envision Senior-Friendly Outdoor Gyms in Parks
The Influence of Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Attributions of Animal Sentience on Willingness to Own Pets
Langston Hughes in Soviet Samarkand, and
The economic impact of international travel measures used during the Covid-19 pandemic
INTRODUCTION: Assessment of the use of travel measures during COVID-19 has focused on their effectiveness in achieving public health objectives. However, the prolonged use of highly varied and frequently changing measures by governments, and their unintended consequences caused, has been controversial. This has led to a call for coordinated decision-making focused on risk-based approaches, which requires better understanding of the broader impact…
The adoption of international travel measures during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: To describe the adoption of international travel measures during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: To comprehensively analyze the measures adopted, we constructed a dataset based on the WHO's Public Health and Social Measures (PHSM) database, which covered 252 countries, territories, or other areas (CTAs), including all 194 WHO Member States, from December 31, 2019, to December 31, 2020. We examined the adoption of meas…
Understanding the secondary outcomes of international travel measures during the covid-19 pandemic
A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Foreign Language Anxiety Interventions Among Students
Foreign language anxiety is an emotional reaction toward learning and using a foreign language, which may negatively influence individuals’ self-perceptions, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. To explore how to mitigate the potential detrimental effect of foreign language anxiety, this meta-analysis and systematic review included 37 primary articles on interventions targeting relieving foreign language anxiety. The results revealed the overall eff…
An analysis of WHO’s Temporary Recommendations on international travel and trade measures during Public Health Emergencies of International Concern
During Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEICs), The International Health Regulations (IHR) require the WHO to issue Temporary Recommendations on the use of international travel and trade measures. During the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO’s initial recommendation against ‘any travel or trade restriction’ has been questioned, and virtually all countries subsequently used international travel measures. WHO’s Recommendations to States Pa…
Emergent patterns in global health diplomacy
From a complexity perspective on governance, multilateral diplomacy is based on interactions between people, ideas, norms, policies and institutions. This article uses a computer-assisted methodology to better understand governance systems as a network of norms. All World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions that were available from 1948 to 2022 were collected from the WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) database. Regular exp…
Are the Tickets for Everyone? Heterogeneity of Economic Rewards for Associate's Degree Completion
Associate's degree completion is billed as the quickest way to upskill the workforce and a ticket to the middle class. Yet 35 million Americans leave college without a degree. Black and Hispanic students are more likely than White and Asian students to leave college. We examined whether economic benefits differ between those whose highest level of education is “some college, no degree (SCND)” compared to an associate's degree by analyzing interac…
Supplemental Material for Honesty–Humility Negatively Correlates With Dishonesty in Romantic Relationships
It's the Honest Personality
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Guided by Science and Evidence”? The Politics of Border Management in Canada's Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The limited and coordinated use of travel measures to control the international spread of disease, based on scientific evidence and respect for human rights, are core tenets of the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR). Yet, during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been near universal and largely uncoordinated use of travel measures by national governments, characterized by wide variation in what measures have be…
The Unintended Consequences of Information Provision
Why do some international agreements fail to achieve their goals? Rather than states' engaging in cheap talk, evasion, or shallow commitments, the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR)-the agreement governing states' and WHO's response to global health emergencies-point to the unintended consequences of information provision. The IHR have a dual goal of providing public health protection from health threats whil…
Governing Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Building a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic
The current global systemic crisis reveals how globalised societies are unprepared to face a pandemic. Beyond the dramatic loss of human life, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered widespread disturbances in health, social, economic, environmental and governance systems in many countries across the world. Resilience describes the capacities of natural and human systems to prevent, react to and recover from shocks. Societal resilience to the current…
Evidence of the effectiveness of travel-related measures during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic
The Underrepresented, Low Income, and First Time (UpLift) Project
Objective: Despite ongoing efforts to recruit minority, first-generation, and low-income (FGLI) students into medicine, these student groups continue to be underrepresented among medical school matriculants. The Underrepresented, Low Income, and First Time (UpLIFT) Project aims to create an open-access, scalable, web-based platform of comprehensive, up-to-date information about successfully applying to and matriculating into medical school. Backg…
Managing borders during public health emergencies of international concern
BACKGROUND: The near universal adoption of cross-border health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide has prompted significant debate about their effectiveness and compliance with international law. The number of measures used, and the range of measures applied, have far exceeded previous public health emergencies of international concern. However, efforts to advance research, policy and practice to support their effective use has been h…
The political economy of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in Latin America
BACKGROUND: In Latin America, total sales of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) continue to rise at an alarming rate. Consumption of added sugar is a leading cause of diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Coalitions of stakeholders have formed in several countries in the region to address this public health challenge including participation of civil society organizations and transnational corporations. Little is currently known about these…
Health, security and foreign policy
Over the past decade, health has become an increasingly important international issue and one which has engaged the attention of the foreign and security policy community. This article examines the emerging relationship between foreign and security policy, and global public health. It argues that the agenda has been dominated by two issues – the spread of selected infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS) and bio-terror. It argues that this is a n…
Family planning policies and programmes in eight low-income countries
Corporate Power and Social Policy
Drawing on published tobacco document research and related sources, this article applies Farnsworth and Holden's conceptual framework for the analysis of corporate power and corporate involvement in social policy (2006) to the transnational tobacco companies (TTCs). An assessment is made of TTCs' structural power, the impact upon their structural position of tobacco control (TC) policies, and their use of agency power. The analysis suggests that,…
Globalisation and public health
At the dawn of the 21st century, globalisation is a word that has become a part of everyday communication in all corners of the world. It is a concept that for some holds the promise of a new and brighter future, while for others it represents a threat that needs to be confronted and counteracted. In the area of public health, a wide range of claims have been made about the various impacts, both positive and negative, that can be attributed to gl…
From colonisation to globalisation
Malawi, the world's most tobacco dependent country, has long defended the tobacco industry as essential to its economy. The impoverished living conditions of tobacco farmers, however, raise questions about the true benefits accruing to the country. While the government and industry often blame public health advocates for declining leaf prices, and thus lower returns to farmers, this article scrutinises these claims from a historical perspective. …
Security, Economy and the Modes of Refugees’ Livelihood Pursuit
This article is a case study of Burmese Karen refugees residing in refugee camps in Thailand. It examines how the relations between a host government and international relief agencies are shaped by the issues of security and economy and how these issues consequently affect the livelihoods of refugees. The study divides the history of Karen refugees into three periods: 1984 to 1995, 1995 to 2005, and 2005 to 2011. The influences on the government'…
The 2011 Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework
In early 2007 the Indonesian government announced that it would cease sharing H5N1 influenza virus samples with the World Health Organization's Global Influenza Surveillance Network. At the heart of the government's complaint was the fact that samples were being passed by the WHO to pharmaceutical companies which developed, and patented, influenza vaccines that the Indonesian authorities could not purchase. The decision gained widespread support …
The framework convention on tobacco control
This paper analyses the particular challenges that tobacco control poses for health governance in an era of accelerating globalisation. Traditionally, health systems have been structured at the national level, and health regulation has focused on the needs of populations within individual countries. However the increasingly, global nature of the tobacco industry, and the risks it poses to public health, require a transnational approach to regulat…
A global political economy approach to Aids
Given the global spread of infection, and the global nature of the response, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is of clear relevance to scholars of international relations and international political economy. The bulk of initial research on AIDS in the early 1980s was devoted to understanding its occurrence and presentation within and across populations. This chapter argues that a global political economy approach offers further insights…
Scattered but Connected
The cross-border movements of Karen people in search of asylum have been taking place sporadically in the Thailand-Burma borderland since the late 1940s. Unlike the focus of most existing literature on the refugees inside a particular refugee camp, this paper examines how refugee camps are connected, the key roles played by a central camp and a nearby town in linking the refugee camps, and how linkages extend to both sides of the Thailand-Burma b…
Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system
(1997). “Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system: Patterns of influence in three intergovernmental organisations. Global Society: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 339-357
Forum
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every aspect of life, for individuals, communities, nations, regions, and the international system. In this forum, scholars from around the world with diverse areas of expertise consider the contributions of international relations (IR) scholarship in our understanding of the politics and governance challenges surrounding the pandemic. The seven essays that follow together examine how our current state…
Behind the Scenes
The “Father of Stress” Meets “Big Tobacco”
The concept of stress remains prominent in public health and owes much to the work of Hans Selye (1907–1982), the “father of stress.” One of his main allies in this work has never been discussed as such: the tobacco industry. After an analysis of tobacco industry documents, we found that Selye received extensive tobacco industry funding and that his research on stress and health was used in litigation to defend the industry's interests and argue …
Strengthening user participation through health sector reform in Colombia
The challenge of achieving community participation as a component of health sector reform is especially great in low- and middle-income countries where there is limited experience of community participation in social policy making. This paper concentrates on the social representations of different actors at different levels of the health care system in Colombia that may hinder or enable effective implementation of the participatory policy. The st…
Globalization and Cholera
Plague and pestilence have become an increasingly popular theme since the end of the Cold War among policymakers, journalists, fic tion writers, and film directors searching for new threats to personal and national security. Ill health and, in particular, infectious diseases have generated a spate of popular, and often alarmist, literature.1 This has been accompanied by growing high-level concern within governments and the medical community with …
Transnational Tobacco Companies and New Nicotine Delivery Systems
While the public health community has focused on the harm-reduction potential of new nicotine delivery systems (NNDSs) and, conversely, their potential for impeding overall efforts to prevent and reduce tobacco use, limited analysis has been conducted on the role of leading transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) in this rapidly growing market. Following aborted efforts during the 1980s and 1990s to develop reduced-risk products, TTCs have heavily…
The State, Ethnic Community, and Refugee Resettlement in Japan
Using the case of Karen refugees in Japan, this paper examines how a state-driven refugee resettlement policy resulted in refugees suffering under difficult conditions and how, in turn, this drove the existing ethnic community to become an active player in assisting resettled refugees to adapt, in contest with the state. Japan was the first Asian country to initiate a refugee resettlement program in 2010. However, the government failed to consult…
Type A Behavior Pattern and Coronary Heart Disease
The type A behavior pattern (TABP) was described in the 1950s by cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, who argued that TABP was an important risk factor for coronary heart disease. This theory was supported by positive findings from the Western Collaborative Group Study and the Framingham Study. We analyzed tobacco industry documents to show that the tobacco industry was a major funder of TABP research, with selected results used to coun…
The Bidirectional Effects of Early Poverty on Children's Reading and Home Environment Scores
Journal Article The Bidirectional Effects of Early Poverty on Children's Reading and Home Environment Scores: Associations and Ethnic Differences Get access Kyunghee Lee, EdD, PhD Kyunghee Lee, EdD, PhD associate professor School of Social Work, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2009, Page…
Age differences in the prevalence of physical aggression among 5–11‐year‐old Canadian boys and girls
It has been proven extremely difficult in the past to estimate the prevalence of physical aggression in children for two main reasons: (a) a heterogeneous sampling of behaviors (i.e., mix between physically aggressive and non‐physically aggressive antisocial behaviors), and (b) a lack of a “gold standard” to identify children who exhibit physically aggressive behaviors on a frequent basis. The goal of this study was to test for age differences in…
A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Foreign Language Anxiety Interventions Among Students
Foreign language anxiety is an emotional reaction toward learning and using a foreign language, which may negatively influence individuals’ self-perceptions, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. To explore how to mitigate the potential detrimental effect of foreign language anxiety, this meta-analysis and systematic review included 37 primary articles on interventions targeting relieving foreign language anxiety. The results revealed the overall eff…
The Unintended Consequences of Information Provision
Why do some international agreements fail to achieve their goals? Rather than states' engaging in cheap talk, evasion, or shallow commitments, the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR)-the agreement governing states' and WHO's response to global health emergencies-point to the unintended consequences of information provision. The IHR have a dual goal of providing public health protection from health threats whil…
The Political Economy of Mental Health in V ietnam
Among low‐ and middle‐income countries, there is evidence that populations experiencing rapid political and economic transition have particularly high burdens of disease and disability from mental health conditions. This paper undertakes a political economy analysis of mental health in Vietnam to enhance knowledge translation, notably how both explicit and tacit knowledge can be used to promote evidence‐based policy making. It argues that Vietnam…
Siam Mismapped
This paper examines the territorial dispute over the Preah Vihear temple on the Thai-Cambodian border. It sheds new light on discussions of the geo-body and nationalism by engaging with cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard's notions of the simulacrum and hyperreality in association with maps. The dispute over the temple of Preah Vihear has centred on one particular map, known as the Annex 1 map, which locates the temple in Cambodian territory. The …
What role for WHO in the 1990s
Journal Article What role for WHO in the 1990s? Get access KELLEY LEE, KELLEY LEE 1Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineUK Correspondence: Kelley Lee, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar GILL WALT GILL WALT 1Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine…
Spotlight on international organizations The UNFPA
Journal Article Spotlight on international organizations The UNFPA: Twenty-five years and beyond Get access Kelley Lee Kelley Lee Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Policy and Planning, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 1994, Pages 223–228, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/9.2.223 Published: 01 June 1994
Linking national and global population agendas
This comparative study of the determinants of family planning policy initiation and implementation focuses on four pairs of countries: Zambia/Zimbabwe, Algeria/Tunisia, Pakistan/Bangladesh, and Philippines/Thailand. The conclusion is drawn that global efforts had an influence on national policy makers and on putting family planning issues on the policy agenda. Global impacts were affected by national economic and social conditions and the broader…
Population Policy
A global political economy approach to Aids
Given the global spread of infection, and the global nature of the response, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is of clear relevance to scholars of international relations and international political economy. The bulk of initial research on AIDS in the early 1980s was devoted to understanding its occurrence and presentation within and across populations. This chapter argues that a global political economy approach offers further insights…
WHO and the effects of extrabudgetary funds
The findings and conclusions of an international policy study are presented on the effects of donors and their voluntary financial contributions upon the World Health Organization. Such extrabudgetary funds now account for over a half of the total expenditure of the Organization and more than 80% of these funds come from a small group of 10 industrialized donor countries. This has led to widespread concerns that the Organization is being ‘donor d…
Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system
(1997). “Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system: Patterns of influence in three intergovernmental organisations. Global Society: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 339-357
Financing health services in China
Finding a Better Way for Humanitarian Action
Determinants of nitrogen dioxide concentrations in indoor ice skating rinks
OBJECTIVES: The combination of poor ventilation and fuel-powered ice resurfacers has resulted in elevated nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations in many indoor ice skating rinks. This study examined the factors influencing concentrations and the effects of various engineering controls in ice rinks with different resurfacer fuels. METHODS: Indoor NO2 concentrations were measured in 19 enclosed ice skating rinks over 3 winters by means of passive sa…
Third world politics, a concise introduction
Family planning policies and programmes in eight low-income countries
Politics and fertility
Globalization and Cholera
Plague and pestilence have become an increasingly popular theme since the end of the Cold War among policymakers, journalists, fic tion writers, and film directors searching for new threats to personal and national security. Ill health and, in particular, infectious diseases have generated a spate of popular, and often alarmist, literature.1 This has been accompanied by growing high-level concern within governments and the medical community with …
Strengthening user participation through health sector reform in Colombia
The challenge of achieving community participation as a component of health sector reform is especially great in low- and middle-income countries where there is limited experience of community participation in social policy making. This paper concentrates on the social representations of different actors at different levels of the health care system in Colombia that may hinder or enable effective implementation of the participatory policy. The st…
A dialogue of the deaf? The health impacts of globalisation
Opinion about the true impacts on human health of globalisation remains sharply divided. On the one hand, a wide range of health professionals, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), scholars and activists fear globalisation is worsening the divide between haves and have nots to unprecedented degrees.1 As globalisation processes are being played out, they argue that this is leading to real impoverishment, economic insecurity and reduced life chan…
The framework convention on tobacco control
This paper analyses the particular challenges that tobacco control poses for health governance in an era of accelerating globalisation. Traditionally, health systems have been structured at the national level, and health regulation has focused on the needs of populations within individual countries. However the increasingly, global nature of the tobacco industry, and the risks it poses to public health, require a transnational approach to regulat…
Globalisation and public health
At the dawn of the 21st century, globalisation is a word that has become a part of everyday communication in all corners of the world. It is a concept that for some holds the promise of a new and brighter future, while for others it represents a threat that needs to be confronted and counteracted. In the area of public health, a wide range of claims have been made about the various impacts, both positive and negative, that can be attributed to gl…
An examination of lithic technological variability at the site of Sheri Khan Tarakai, NWFP, Pakistan through experimental replication
In a previous paper Morris and Ashton suggested that the interpretation of the relationship between experimental and archaeological lithic datasets by Inizan et al. had resulted in misleading conclusions regarding levels of economic development at the site of Sheri Khan Tarakai, North- West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Morris andAshton questioned the use of copper in the lithic production strategy and suggested that the quality of the raw materia…
Access to appropriate information on HIV is important in maximizing the acceptance of the antenatal HIV antibody test
The universal HIV antibody testing programme was implemented in Hong Kong in September 2001. A survey on acceptance of the test was conducted in the territory's maternal and child health centres in a two-month period. The response rate was 98.2% and 2,669 valid questionnaires were analysed. Seventy per cent (n=1,825) of the respondents indicated their acceptance of the test. A significant association was noted between clients' acceptance and acce…
Best Resources on Globalization
There has been a veritable explosion of resources on globalization, which reflects widespread and rapidly growing interest in the subject. While offering a wealth of information and experiences, the amount of available material can be somewhat daunting for the uninitiated. An essential place to start, in beginning to sift through this literature, is to be clear about how globalization is defined. Judging by the scope of topics covered by existing…
Global health promotion
This paper discusses what is meant by 'global health promotion' and the extent to which global governance architecture is emerging, enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health within an increasingly global context. A review of selected initiatives on breast-milk substitutes, healthy cities, tobacco control and diet and nutrition suggests that existing institutions are uneven in their capacity to tackle global health iss…
Global health and national security
The security and foreign policy communities have increasingly addressed global health problems as threats to national security. Global health is a humanitarian endeavour that seeks to improve the world's health including the most vulnerable peoples, while national security works to protect the interests of people within a given state. The major statements of security policy by the United States and United Kingdom link the self-protective interest…
Health, security and foreign policy
Over the past decade, health has become an increasingly important international issue and one which has engaged the attention of the foreign and security policy community. This article examines the emerging relationship between foreign and security policy, and global public health. It argues that the agenda has been dominated by two issues – the spread of selected infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS) and bio-terror. It argues that this is a n…
TRIPS, the Doha declaration and paragraph 6 decision
BACKGROUND: The World Trade Organisation's Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (known as the Doha Declaration) of 2001, and subsequent Decision on the Interpretation of Paragraph 6 reached in 2003, affirmed the flexibilities available under the Agreement on Trade Related Property Rights (TRIPS) to member states seeking to protect public health. Despite these important clarifications, the actual implementation of these measures to…
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