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Ebola respons-ibility: moving from shared to multiple responsibilities
- Source :
- Third World Quarterly. 37:436-451
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- Combating threats of infectious diseases has been increasingly framed as a global shared responsibility for a multi-actor framework, of states, international organisations and non-governmental actors. However, the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has shown that this governance framework has not been able to limit the spread of this virus, despite the normative and legislative changes to global disease control. By unbundling the concept of responsibility, this article will assess how global shared responsibility may have failed due to the fact that accountability does not fall on any one state or stakeholder, highlighting an inherent weakness with the global disease governance regime. As such, this paper concludes that a move towards multiple responsibilities may prove a more effective mechanism for ensuring global health security.
- Subjects :
- Ebola virus
business.industry
JX International law
Corporate governance
030231 tropical medicine
Stakeholder
JF Political institutions (General)
Legislature
Development
Public administration
Public relations
medicine.disease_cause
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Accountability
medicine
Global health
Normative
030212 general & internal medicine
Business
Unbundling
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13602241 and 01436597
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Third World Quarterly
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a7520c1224906f01de0e5bfc8f58bc04