the areas in which health diplomacy is of relevance in the world, giving examples and explaining why it should be a…

Nations have long recognized the central importance of health security to national security, and over the centuries have often implemented actions to try to ‘stop’ diseases at borders, for example through measures of quarantine. In more recent years they have begun to recognize that health security is more than a national concern — it is a global issue affecting not only countries, but also a range of national industries and international corporations.