Question

What are the conditions that can cause a public-health issue to become a security issue?

Answer 1

• Climate change
• Bioterrorism
• Increased mobility of people
• Globalization
• Emerging infectious diseases

Bioterrorism:

Use of bioweapon like HIV/AIDS has a huge impact on the economical, social affecting the security and social well being and balance of the community.It has a huge impact on the mass death rate in african conntries.It affects family, social and educational fields very badly.These health issues can cause an economical crisis in a balanced country.The increasesd rate of the spread reduces the manpower in the labour work fields due to mortality and morbidity.It was identified as the biological weapon in the conflicts in the africa.It is the worst affected region of HIV in the world, with 70% patient population of the world.

Increased moblity of people

The migration of people to the unaffected areas of the world causes the spread of the endemic diseases to spread to the other parts of the world. The main causes of the movement of people being the poverty & poor health.There is chance for the new infections to start spreading too.E.g. H1N1 in 2009 caused a large threat to the economy and socual security. Even now, the pandemic COVID-19 has worsly affaected the social security and health care system by its rapid spread to all parts of the world by destroying the human population in large mass. The main economically strong countries and developed nations have came down to the crisis within a few days.The migration of people(International mobility) has the main role in the rapid spread of the outbreak of corona virus from the Wuhan city in the china.

Globalization:

Emerging infectious disease:

In the last two decades, according to WHO, there are more than 30 new infectious diseases emerged in the various parts of the worl; among them, some are re-emrged.These diseases have a profound impact on the world economy.It affects the tourism, marketing, and all manufacturing industries. The people will lose their job and theus the family balnce too is affected. The gross production of the countries like africa was noticed to increase their productivity 1/3 times more on eradication of malaria. In 2003, asia is affected by the outbrek of SARS and the economic loss was huge.There was a huge rreatment cost for this disease which reduced the investment in the other productive feilds.So many schools,hospitals,markets,shopping malls,film theatres, restaurants, all were closed for a long time to keep social distancing.It had sigificant economic damage,mortality and national security threat.Likewise, H1N1 outbreak in 2009 and ebola in 2014. Global heath security against epidemic with alert for the safe future was found to be a good solution for this.This caused to include health problems to foreign policy agenda.

Climate change

The atmospheric pollution causes invitable changes in the normal climate. This brings about a new health issue as the sudeen change in the flora of the atmosphere causes the disease pathogens to be virulent. The non-seasonal diseases leads to the unexpected cost of treatment and the economic stabilty.The spread of the Cholera is just invited to the community due to unhygeinic water consumption by the slum poeple. The water born, air born diseases are the prime factors to affect the health security of the society due to climate change.

Globalization :

Globalization of the products of any country can cause a rapid spred of diseases to a larger area. This can be fatal to the countries receiving those products.The economic instability and social well being damage is accelerated throughh the globalization.