ReviewBMJ global health2020
The value proposition of the Global Health Security Index.
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- Structural gradients in excess mortality during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: economic development, preparedness, and cross-national differences, 2020-2024.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- A Review and Future Directions for Global Public Health Security Assessment Tools.China CDC weekly · 2026Article
- Infectious Disease Surveillance in the Era of Big Data and AI: Opportunities and Pitfalls.Cureus · 2025Review
- Identification and prioritization of population health indices in Iranian population, a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- The Global Health Security Index and Its Role in Shaping National COVID‑19 Response Capacities: A Scoping Review.Annals of global health · 2025Article
- Countries' progress towards Global Health Security (GHS) increased health systems resilience during the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic: A difference-in-difference study of 191 countries.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Rethinking the methodology of global indexes for equitable evidence-informed policy towards sustainable development.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Health system resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative analysis of disruptions in care from 32 countries.Health services research · 2024Article
- Epidemic preparedness and response capacity against infectious disease outbreaks in 186 countries, 2018-2022.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
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- Cracking the code of health security: unveiling the balanced indices through rank-ordered effect analysis.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Comparison of the Bulut Index-Beta method and Global Health Security Index: results from the world's countries.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2024Article
- High Global Health Security Index is a determinant of early detection and response to monkeypox: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the Global Health Security Index as a predictor of COVID-19 excess mortality standardised for under-reporting and age structure.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Inferring the impact of humanitarian responses on population mortality: methodological problems and proposals.Conflict and health · 2023Article
- The level of countries' preparedness to health risks during Covid-19 and pre-pandemic: the differential response to health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators.Health economics review · 2023Article
- Assessing the impact of regional laboratory networks in East and West Africa on national health security capacities.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Analyzing the GHSI puzzle of whether highly developed countries fared worse in COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: an exploratory analysis of infection and fatality rates, and contextual factors associated with preparedness in 177 countries, from Jan 1, 2020, to Sept 30, 2021.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Infectious disease outbreaks pose major threats to human health and security. Countries with robust capacities for preventing, detecting and responding to outbreaks can avert many of the social, political, economic and health system costs of such crises. The Global Health Security Index (GHS Index)-the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries-recently found that no country is sufficiently prepared for epidemics or pandemics. The GHS Index can help health security stakeholders identify areas of weakness, as well as opportunities to collaborate across sectors, collectively strengthen health systems and achieve shared public health goals. Some scholars have recently offered constructive critiques of the GHS Index's approach to scoring and ranking countries; its weighting of select indicators; its emphasis on transparency; its focus on biosecurity and biosafety capacities; and divergence between select country scores and corresponding COVID-19-associated caseloads, morbidity, and mortality. Here, we (1) describe the practical value of the GHS Index; (2) present potential use cases to help policymakers and practitioners maximise the utility of the tool; (3) discuss the importance of scoring and ranking; (4) describe the robust methodology underpinning country scores and ranks; (5) highlight the GHS Index's emphasis on transparency and (6) articulate caveats for users wishing to use GHS Index data in health security research, policymaking and practice.
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