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  • Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    An International Comparative Approach

    Edited by M. Jae Moon, Dong-Young Kim ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    This book examines why and how different countries developed different policy positions and responses to the COVID‑19 pandemic, particularly in the early phase, by surveying a sample of countries that are geographically, politically, and culturally diverse, particularly those representing the East and the West.Exploring nine countries, namely four Western countries (Finland, Germany, United States ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Korean Politics and Public Administration

    Edited by Chung-in Moon, M. Jae Moon ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Korean Politics and Public Administration gathers the expertise of leading international scholars to survey the full spectrum of contemporary South Korean international relations, public management, and public policies.Divided into four parts, the handbook covers a range of issues including: domestic Korean political parties, elections and leadership, foreign policy, ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges, including rapid population growth, migration ... Read more

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  • The Covid Consensus

    The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor?A Critique from the Left

    During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that 'following the science' with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But social science reveals the true human cost of this policy. The Covid Consensus provides an internationalist-left perspective on the world's Covid-19 response, which has had devastating consequences for democratic rights ... Read more

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  • Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as ... Read more

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  • Governing Global Health

    Who Runs the World and Why?

    The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations may be national, regional, international, or even non-state organizations-like Medicins Sans Frontieres ... Read more

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  • Global Health Governance

    by Jeremy Youde ...
    In recent years the spread of diseases such as AIDS, SARS and avian flu has pushed health issues towards the top of the international agenda. Such outbreaks have serious political, economic, and social consequences and remind the world of the necessity of global cooperation in order to deal effectively with the challenges they pose.Global Health Governance offers a comprehensive introduction to ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency

    Series Book 6 - World Scientific Series In Health Investment And Financing
    The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world's vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from disease outbreaks. But the pandemic merely reveals fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global health. What are the roots of discontents in global health? How do geo-politics, power dynamics, knowledge gaps, racism, and corruption affect global health? Is foreign aid for health due for a ... Read more

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    Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe

    by Peter Baldwin ...
    COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic. He shows that how nations responded depended above all on the political tools ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Pandemic

    Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19

    Series Book 19 - Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The Making of a Pandemic provides a systematic account of how societal and psychological forces shaped the Covid-19 pandemic. The first part focuses on how biological and societal factors interact to create a pandemic. The second part explores how characteristics of the American economy, the American approach to public health, and domestic and international inequality combined to prolong the ... Read more

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    by Chris Simms ...
    How Weak Leadership Brought Crises to the Global CommunityHow did we ever reach the point of nearly 900,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US, 5.5 million worldwide and a climate crisis that now affects 85% of the global population, yet goes largely unchallenged?The pandemic and climate crises are only part of a network of crises that coalesced about 50 years ago with roots going back 400 years. This ... Read more

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  • Alberta

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    Series series Provincial and Territorial Health System Profiles
    Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first detailed description of Alberta’s health care system and the underpinning political and social forces that have shaped it. Drawing on significant wealth from government revenues generated through the energy sector, Alberta has been able to develop an extensive public health and health care infrastructure.Alberta has used its financial resources ... Read more

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