The goals of health and human security are fundamentally valued in all societies, yet the breadth of their interconnections are not properly understood. This volume explores the evolving relationship between health and security in today's interdependent world, and offers policy guidelines for global health action.

This volume underscores three basic principles. First, recent developments in the changing security landscape present enormous challenges for human security and global health. Second, although the connections between health and security are long-standing, the current context of new conflicts, pervasive poverty, and accelerating global flows has brought the fields closer together. Finally, a human security approach dependent upon individual and collective action can identify new strategies for meeting the goals of global health and security.

The distinguished contributions to this volume were commissioned by Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative, a research unit supporting the work of the International Commission on Human Security.

Contributor Biographies	vii
Preface	xv
Introduction	xvii
SECTION I: HISTORY, ETHICS, AND POLICIES
1. A Human Security Agenda for Global Health	3
Lincoln Chen and Vasant Narasimhan
2. Human Security and Conflict: A Comprehensive Approach	13
Jennifer Leaning, Sam Arie, Gilbert Holleufer, and Claude Bruderlein
3. Health and Security in Historical Perspective	31
Simon Szreter
4. Bioethics, Human Security, and Global Health	53
Giovanni Berlinguer
5. Health and Security for a Global Century	67
Jonas Gahr Store, Jonathan Welch, and Lincoln Chen
SECTION II: GLOBAL EPIDEMICS
6. Health and Security: Globalization of Infectious Diseases	87
Mary E. Wilson
7. Evolving Infectious Disease Threats to National and Global Security	103
David L. Heymann
8. HIV/AIDS: The Security Issue of a Lifetime	121
Alex de Waal
9. AIDS: A Threat to Human Security	137
Olive Shisana, Nompumelelo Zungu-Dirwayi, and William Shisana
SECTION III: VIOLENCE AND RISKS
10. Violence and Human Security: Policy Linkages	157
David R. Meddings, Douglas W. Bettcher, and Roya Ghafele
11. Gender, Health, and Security	177
Sonali Johnson and Claudia Garcia-Moreno
12. Health Problems as Security Risks: Global Burden of Disease Assessments	205
Kenji Shibuya
SECTION IV: POVERTY AND HEALTH ACTION
13. Human Security and Primary Health Care in Asia: Realities and Challenges	229
Mely Caballero-Anthony
14. Harnessing Social Capital for Health, Security, and Development in Bangladesh	253
Alayne M. Adams and Mushtaque Chowdhury
15. Livelihood Security through Community-Based Health Insurance in India	273
Mirai Chatterjee and M. Kent Ranson
Index		297




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: World health, Medical policy International cooperation, Globalization Health aspects, Epidemics, Poverty, Basic needs, World Health, Disease Outbreaks, Health Policy, International Cooperation, Security Measures, Violence