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Full Description
This book is a collection of essays that explore commonalities and contrasts between strategy in armed conflict and strategy in public health. The first part uses the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories to study strategy as an exchange of messages between adversaries, in the context of underlying power relations. The 'messages' to be exchanged are constructed from an 'alphabet' of tactics available to each contender, in a large sense. The second part of the book explores four case histories from this perspective, ranging across agribusiness-generated pandemics, through tuberculosis and COVID-19. The final chapter attempts a strategic synthesis applicable more specifically to public health than to the remarkably - and disturbingly -- close parallel of armed conflict. Taking a unique approach to public health tactics and strategy this volume will be of interest to social epidemiologists, public health economists, public policy scientists, as well as public health researchers and practitioners.
Contents
Wicked strategic problems.- The enemy gets to vote on the outcome.- Fog and friction as resources.- Strategic Culture.- Agribusiness vs. Public Health: Disease Control in Resource-Asymmetric Conflict.- Power relations and COVID-19 in New York City.- Tuberculosis, the Marker of Abusive Power Relations.- Literacy and public health.- How policy failure and power relations drive COVID-19 pandemic Waves.- Strategic counterpoint and fugue.- Concluding remarks.- Index.
