Declaring a public health emergency of international concern : between international law and politics /

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Addressing multiple empirical case studies, including COVID-19, this multidisciplinary book explores the relationship between international law and international relations to interrogate how a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is declared and its role in how we collectively re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Eccleston-Turner, Mark (Author), Wenham, Clare (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Public health laws.
Public health > International cooperation.
Santé publique > Coopération internationale.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Public health > International cooperation
Public health laws
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Declaring A Public Health Emergency of International Concern: Between International Law and Politics
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Table of Instruments
  • List of figures
  • Notes on the Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A Public Health Emergency of International Concern
  • The PHEIC: between international law and politics?
  • Why this matters
  • Methodology
  • Structure of the book
  • One From Westphalian to Post-Westphalian? The Origins of the PHEIC Declaration and the 2005 International Health Regulations
  • International Sanitary Conferences
  • The 1969 International Health Regulations
  • need for reform
  • Reforming the regulations
  • SARS, China and the use of discretionary powers at the WHO
  • Reforming the IHR
  • process, politics and an innovative treaty
  • Two A Public Health Emergency of International Concern: Between Legal Obligations and Political Reality
  • Role of states that are party to the IHR
  • Role of the WHO Director-General
  • Role of the Emergency Committee
  • Public Health Emergency of International Concern
  • Extraordinary event
  • Risk of the international spread of disease
  • Coordinated international response
  • The declaration of a PHEIC and the IHR process
  • Transparency, accountability and good governance of the PHEIC process
  • Blurring the lines between the EC and the DG
  • Transparency and good governance
  • Three Case Studies on the PHEIC Declaration
  • 2009-H1N1
  • PHEIC decision making
  • Temporary recommendations
  • Additional reflections: 2009-H1N1, a PHEIC and a pandemic
  • Polio
  • PHEIC decision making
  • Temporary recommendations
  • Additional considerations
  • The West African Ebola outbreak
  • PHEIC decision making
  • Temporary recommendations
  • Additional considerations
  • Zika
  • PHEIC decision making
  • Temporary recommendations
  • Additional reflections
  • Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo90
  • PHEIC decision making
  • October 2018
  • April 2019
  • June 2019
  • July 2019
  • Temporary recommendations
  • Additional reflections
  • COVID-19
  • PHEIC decision making
  • Temporary recommendations
  • Additional reflections
  • Four Events That Were Not Declared a PHEIC
  • MERS-CoV
  • Yellow fever
  • Events for which no IHR EC was convened
  • Cholera in Zimbabwe
  • Cholera in Haiti
  • Beyond naturally occurring events
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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