Roberts, Stephen L;
Kelman, Ilan;
(2022)
Global health security and islands as seen through COVID-19 and vaccination.
Global Public Health
, 17
(4)
pp. 601-613.
10.1080/17441692.2022.2029927.
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Abstract
Since the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 2020, significant research and attention has focused on countries’ abilities and interests in enacting response measures to the spread of the coronavirus including lockdowns, travel restrictions, and vaccination programmes to contain infections, hospitalisations, and deaths. As the pandemic has continued, much discussion has also centred on the ability of islands to control borders, enact public health measures, and keep the virus out or controlled, owing in part to presumed islandness characteristics of isolation and remoteness. Drawing from ongoing empirical examples of island experiences in the context of COVID-19, this article examines to what extent islandness impacts health concerns and health responses within aspects of global health security and health systems. In considering how islands around the world have been implementing health security measures regarding COVID-19, linkages or suggested linkages among islands, global health security, and pandemics indicate the lack of exceptionality of islands and archipelagos. That is, how islandness or lack thereof is managed ends up being far more important for global health security outcomes than islandness itself.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Global health security and islands as seen through COVID-19 and vaccination |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/17441692.2022.2029927 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2022.2029927 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Covid-19, global health, health security, islands, islandness, pandemics |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142756 |
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