Global Health Security in China, Japan and India: Assessing Sustainable Development Goals

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a newfound emphasis on the importance of global health security: the idea that countries must cooperate with one another to address public health threats and meet 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). This volume explores three challenging 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. This book shows how Asian countries are being pulled in different directions when formulating health policy and legislation, which are determined both by their state obligations under trade agreements as well as their adherence to international economic laws. Ultimately, the book observes that government decisions about health care programs, delivery, and infrastructure must be balanced with cost and affordability, the demands of stakeholders such as hospitals and physicians, political ideology, and global economic pressures.