Chattu Vijay Kumar, Knight Andy W, Kevany Sebastian, Sehovic Annamarie Bindenagel
Department of Paraclinical Sciences and Institute of International Relations, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago AND Global Institute of Public Health, India.
Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
J Educ Health Promot. 2019 Jun 27;8:107. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_391_18. eCollection 2019.
The political, social, economic, and security implications of health-related issues such as emerging infectious diseases or the epidemic of Non Communicable Diseases offer a rare opportunity for professionals in foreign policy and international relations to engage with the health arena and at the same time for global health experts to enter into and intersect with the domain of diplomacy. The aim of this review is to understand and explore the concepts of global health diplomacy (GHD), health security, and human security. For this narrative review, a literature search was done in PubMed, Scopus, and EBSCO for the "global health diplomacy," "health security," and "human security," and full-texts were reviewed. The recent outbreaks of Ebola in West Africa and Zika in South America are pertinent examples of the nature of the human security crisis and the imminent and severe threat posed to human life across the globe as a result of these epidemics. The Commission on Human Security defines human security as the protection of the vital core of all human lives from critical and pervasive threats. We highlight the ways in which health has now become an issue of national security/global concern and also how GHD can aid in the development of new bilateral or multilateral agreements to safeguard the health and security of people in our globalized world. The paper provides a prospective about, and overview of, health and human security that essentially emphasizes the growing interlinkages between global health, diplomacy, and foreign policy.
新兴传染病或非传染性疾病流行等与健康相关问题所带来的政治、社会、经济和安全影响，为外交政策和国际关系领域的专业人士参与健康领域事务提供了难得机遇，同时也让全球健康专家得以进入外交领域并与之交叉。本综述的目的是理解和探讨全球健康外交（GHD）、健康安全和人类安全的概念。针对此叙述性综述，在PubMed、Scopus和EBSCO数据库中检索了“全球健康外交”“健康安全”和“人类安全”相关文献，并对全文进行了审阅。近期西非的埃博拉疫情和南美的寨卡疫情，恰是人类安全危机本质的相关实例，以及这些疫情给全球人类生命带来的紧迫而严重的威胁。人类安全委员会将人类安全定义为保护所有人生命的核心要素免受重大且普遍存在的威胁。我们着重阐述了健康如今如何成为国家安全/全球关注的问题，以及全球健康外交如何有助于制定新的双边或多边协议，以保障全球化世界中人们的健康与安全。本文对健康和人类安全进行了展望与概述，本质上强调了全球健康、外交和外交政策之间日益紧密的联系。
