Health as International Politics: Combating Communicable Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region

ISBN-13: 9780815389439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 129 str.

Geir Hnneland

Opis

The emergence of new and re-emergence of old infectious diseases since the early 1990s has attracted interest from various fields of investigation. This timely work provides a detailed account of how the states around the Baltic Sea have met the challenge of communicable diseases and used health issues as an instrument in their foreign policy.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Establishment and organization of the Task Force; Western vs. post-Soviet medicine; Impact in the post-Soviet area; Conclusions; Appendix I: list of interviewees; References; Index.