Publication: Communicable diseases and governance: Atale of two regions
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2012-10-04
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17441706
17441692
17441692
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2-s2.0-84866468090
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Mahidol University
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Global Public Health. Vol.7, No.6 (2012), 574-587
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Marco Liverani, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Richard J. Coker Communicable diseases and governance: Atale of two regions. Global Public Health. Vol.7, No.6 (2012), 574-587. doi:10.1080/17441692.2012.685487 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/14596
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Communicable diseases and governance: Atale of two regions
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Regional policies and programmes on communicable disease prevention and control are becoming an important component of global public health. In a comparative fashion, we examined the situation in the European and Southeast Asian contexts, with a focus on the underlying institutional and political backgrounds underpinning the regionalisation of planning and interventions. Our findings document the emergence of two distinctive models of regional integration. While in Europe there is a process of institutionalisation and centralisation, in Southeast Asia the landscape of regional cooperation is characterised by the proliferation of many provisional projects, based on loose agreements and a decentralised structure that emphasises the initiative and sense of ownership of member countries. These two approaches, we conclude, reflect wider differences of political culture between supranational integration in Europe and intergovernmental agreements in Southeast Asia. © 2012 Taylor & Francis.