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oapen-20.500.12657-525982022-01-28T02:51:16Z Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic van der Veere, Anoma Schneider, Florian Lo, Catherine Public health, Migrant labour, COVID-19, WHO, Governance, Public policy bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPQ Central government::JPQB Central government policies Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the WHO’s role in Asia as a global health organization is coming under increasing pressure. As its credibility is slowly being eroded by public displays of incompetence and negligence, it has also become an arena of contestation. Moreover, while the pandemic continues to undermine the future of global health governance as a whole, the highly interdependent economies in Asia have exposed the speed with which pandemics can spread, as intensive regional travel and business connections have caused every area in the region to be hit hard. The migrant labor necessary to sustain globalized economies has been strained and the security of international workers is now more precarious than ever, as millions have been left stranded, seen their entry blocked, or have limited access to health services. This volume provides an accessible framework for the understanding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, with a specific emphasis on global governance in health and labor. 2022-01-27T08:58:38Z 2022-01-27T08:58:38Z 2022 book 9789463720977 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52598 eng Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048555246.pdf http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_home&l=2 Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463720977 10.5117/9789463720977 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789463720977 3 224 Amsterdam open access
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Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the WHO’s role in Asia as a global health organization is coming under increasing pressure. As its credibility is slowly being eroded by public displays of incompetence and negligence, it has also become an arena of contestation. Moreover, while the pandemic continues to undermine the future of global health governance as a whole, the highly interdependent economies in Asia have exposed the speed with which pandemics can spread, as intensive regional travel and business connections have caused every area in the region to be hit hard. The migrant labor necessary to sustain globalized economies has been strained and the security of international workers is now more precarious than ever, as millions have been left stranded, seen their entry blocked, or have limited access to health services. This volume provides an accessible framework for the understanding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, with a specific emphasis on global governance in health and labor.
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