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Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India

Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India

Assessing Sustainable Development Goals

Edited by Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada and Ilan Vertinsky

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Series: Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization

Imprint: UBC Press

296 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 18 charts, 28 tables

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9780774867719
Published: February 2024

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9780774867702
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put a newfound emphasis on the importance of global health security: the idea that countries must coordinate their efforts globally to address pressing international public health threats while meeting their own specific domestic health care needs. Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India investigates how global health security is evolving in three major Asian countries that have committed to adhering to the international health standards and targets in accordance with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Contributors explore three areas of global health security in the SDG agenda: strengthening access to primary health care, protecting and promoting public health, and integrating global markets into health care provision. As this comprehensive volume demonstrates, despite having to balance cost and affordability, stakeholder demands, political ideology, and global economic pressures with decisions about how to best meet global health standards, all three countries have made significant advances in health law and policy over the past decade.

Foreword / Pitman B. Potter

Introduction: Framing Global Health Security in China, Japan and India Using the Sustainable Development Goals / Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada, and Ilan Vertinsky

Part 1: Strengthening Access to Health Services

1 Providing Access to Affordable Medicines and Health Care for All in China / Wenqin Liang and Ilan Vertinsky

2 Mixed Billing and New Medicine in Japan: Will Lifting the Ban on Mixed Billing Improve Access to Health Care or Crash the System? / Yoshitaka Wada

3 Health for All: Can India Meet Its International Human Rights Obligations? / Tiffany Chua, Marc McCrum, and Ilan Vertinsky

Part 2: Protecting and Promoting Public Health

4 Linking Public Health Targets of the Sustainable Development Goals to Human Rights Performance in China / Lesley A. Jacobs

5 Moving Japan Towards the Global Standard for Vaccines / Toshimi Nakanashi

6 Global Health Standards and Food Security: Exploring the Double Science Standard of Review Under the SPS Agreement after India – Agricultural Products / Mariela de Amstalden

Part 3: Engaging and Integrating Global Markets in Primary Health Care and Public Health

7 Does China National Tobacco Corporation Threaten Global Public Health? / Jennifer Fang, Kelley Lee, and Nidhi Sejpal Pouranik

8 Exit and Voice Strategies by Patients in Dealing with Incentive Structures in the Chinese Healthcare System / Neil Munro and Ziying He

9 Global Markets in Medicine: Japan's Health Care Service Exports to Singapore and India / Hiroyuki Kojin

References; Contributors; Index

Lesley A. Jacobs is Vice-President, Research and Innovation at Ontario Tech University and a professor emeritus at York University. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and co-editor of The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law. Yoshitaka Wada is a professor at Waseda Law School and widely published in Japan. Ilan Vertinsky is Vinod Sood Professor of International Business Studies, Strategy and Business Economics in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and co-author of Japanese Economic Policies and Growth: Implications for Businesses in Canada and North America.

Contributors: Tiffany Chua, Jennifer Fang, Ziying He, Hiroyuki Kojin, Kelley Lee, Wenqin Liang, Mariela Maidana-Eletti De Amstalden, Marc Mccrum, Neil Munro, Toshimi Nakanishi, Nidhi Sejpal Pouranik

"Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India: Assessing Sustainable Development Goals is an essential contribution to the discipline of global health security, as it addresses global health crises and challenges faced by countries in achieving their sustainable development goals (SDGs)."
- Krishna Kumar Verma (Pacific Affairs)