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Main 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:
1 Wicked strategic problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.2 The Data Rate Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.3 Scalarizing driving parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.4 Tactical/operational engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.5 Strategic wickedness and institutional cognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.6 The tyranny of time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211.7 The tyranny of resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.8 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.9 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 The enemy gets to vote on the outcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382.2 The dynamics of uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392.3 Conflict is a cognitive relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.4 The control theory illusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442.5 Lamarckian punctuated equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512.6 From probability models to statistical tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522.7 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 Fog and friction as resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.2 Interacting information sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653.3 The basic model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663.4 Determining g(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673.5 Uncertainty, friction, and noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683.6 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704 Strategic Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764.2 Analytic and holistic streams of strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79xvxvi Contents4.3 Third streams of strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825 Agribusiness vs. Public Health: Disease Control in Resource-Asymmetric Conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885.2 Stochastic sterilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895.3 Disease control failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935.4 Asymmetric conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965.5 John Boyd's OODA Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035.6 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066 Power relations and COVID-19 in New York City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1216.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226.2 Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256.4 Discussion and Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1397 Tuberculosis, the Marker of Abusive Power Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1517.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1527.2 The Examples of Stop TB and the Gates Foundation's Global Fund . 1537.3 Primary and Secondary Prevention: Which is True Strategy? . . . . . . 1547.4 Basics of TB Biology and Outbreaks from Upheavals . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557.5 Control Problems from Authorities in Denial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1567.6 Social Fabric and Ebbing of TB Outbreak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587.7 Hierarchy, Toxic Power Relations, and Upheavals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1597.8 World War II and the Post-War Era: Unity First, Then Hierarchy . . . 1607.9 Stress Physiology and TB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1627.10 Unreliable Resources for TB Control and Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647.11 Anti-TB Drugs: Necessary Tactic But Not a Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1657.12 Northern Industrial Revolution and Southern Agrarian Economy:Social Mobility vs Feudalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667.13 Countervailing Forces and Social Mobility to Stop US Feudalismand Caste System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1678 Literacy and public health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1738.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1738.2 Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1748.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1748.4 Discussion and Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1788.5 Appendix A: Data and sources for 39 developing countries . . . . . . . . 1829 How policy failure and power relations drive COVID-19 pandemicwaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869.2 Control system dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1929.3 Infection dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Contents xvii9.4 Distributed delay - cognition rate models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009.5 Multiple delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2039.6 Dreams and schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2049.7 'Dear Leader' malevolence is synergistic with delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2049.8 Reconsidering COVID-19 dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2099.9 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21110 Strategic counterpoint and fugue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21710.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21810.2 The Data Rate Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21910.3 Scalarized resources and interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22010.4 Arousal and Distraction I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22110.5 Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22410.6 Arousal and Distraction II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22810.7 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22811 Concluding remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
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Publisher: Springer (Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
Publication date: April, 2023
Pages: 231
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Subcategories: Public Health