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Current Crises and Potential Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges Facing Global Health or Global Public Health by a Different Name

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2019

Frederick M. Burkle Jr Open the ORCID record for Frederick M. Burkle Jr [Opens in a new window]
Frederick M. Burkle Jr*
Affiliation:
Professor (Ret.); Senior Fellow & Scientist, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Senior International Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC USA Elected Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC USA
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Correspondence: Frederick M. Burkle, Jr Harvard University - Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 14 Story street 2nd Floor Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA E-mail: skipmd77@aol.com
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Abstract

Since 1945, the reasons for major crises and how the world responds to them have changed every 10-15 years or sooner. Whereas these crises vary greatly across global regions, their economic, environmental, ecological, social, and disease aspects are increasingly under the influence of widely integrated global changes and forces arising primarily from: climate extremes; rapid unsustainable urbanization; critical biodiversity losses; and emergencies of scarcity in water, food, and energy. These slow-moving but increasingly severe crises affect larger populations across many borders and lead to the emergence of increasing population-based, preventable public health emergencies related to water, sanitation, food, shelter, energy, and related health illnesses, and ultimately global health security. This report explores the impact of these crises on Asia and the Pacific region, and their potential for regional conflict.

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Asia Pacificcrises and conflictglobal public health
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 34 , Issue 6 , December 2019 , pp. 653 - 667
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© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2019 

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