Casualties of preparedness
The Global Health Security Index and Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12889709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manjari Mahajan (New School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 204-214 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Law in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-5523 • E-ISSN: 1744-5531 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1744552321000288 |
| OpenAlex | W3167969230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 12 |
The 2019 Global Health Security Index (GHS Index) assessed the US and the UK as the two countries best prepared to address a catastrophic pandemic. The preparedness rankings of this index have had little correlation with the actual experiences of COVID-19 in various countries. In explaining this disrepancy, the paper argues that better indicators and more data would not have fixed the problem. Rather, the prevailing paradigm of global health security that informs instruments such as the GHS Index needs to be interrogated. This dominant paradigm narrowly conceptualises global health security in terms of the availability of a technical infrastructure to detect emerging infectious diseases and prevent their contagion, but profoundly undertheorises the broader social and political determinants of public health. The neglect of social and political features is amplified in instruments such as the GHS Index that privilege universalised templates presumed to apply across countries but that prove to be inadequate in assessing how individual societies draw on their unique histories to craft public health responses
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Craft · Development economics · Disease · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Global health · Health care · Health security · Index (typography · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Neglect · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Preparedness · Privilege (computing · Public health · Computer Science · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |