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- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Chapter 1 State of Global Health in a Radically Unequal World
- Chapter 2 Societal Determinants and Determination of Health
- Chapter 3 Strengthening the Global Response to Infectious Disease Threats in the Twenty-First Century, with a COVID-19 Epilogue
- Chapter 4 Gender Equality in Science, Medicine, and Global Health
- Chapter 5 Health Systems and Health and Healthcare Reform
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Chapter 3 - Strengthening the Global Response to Infectious Disease Threats in the Twenty-First Century, with a COVID-19 Epilogue
from Section 1 - Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Chapter 1 State of Global Health in a Radically Unequal World
- Chapter 2 Societal Determinants and Determination of Health
- Chapter 3 Strengthening the Global Response to Infectious Disease Threats in the Twenty-First Century, with a COVID-19 Epilogue
- Chapter 4 Gender Equality in Science, Medicine, and Global Health
- Chapter 5 Health Systems and Health and Healthcare Reform
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Summary
In 1918, as the First World War was winding to a close, a mysterious disease that left victims blue in the face and gasping for air tore through the trenches crisscrossing Europe and traversed the oceans, stowed away on warships. By the time the so-called Spanish flu had run its course in 1920, the pandemic had infected more than a quarter of the world’s population and resulted in some 30 million to 100 million deaths (Patterson & Pyle, 1991; Johnson & Mueller, 2002). In comparison, the two world wars are estimated to have killed roughly 77 million combined (The Economist, 2018). By any measure, the 1918 flu pandemic was one of the worst catastrophes of the twentieth century.
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- Global HealthEthical Challenges, pp. 51 - 75Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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