World population, world health and security: 20th century trends
Bashford, A.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 62(3): 187-190
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 1470-2738 PMID: 18272731 DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.055608Document Number: 426000
The connection between infectious disease control and national security is now firmly entrenched. This article takes a historical look at another security issue once prominent in debate on foreign policy and international relations, but now more or less absent: overpopulation. It explores the nature of the debate on population as a security question, and its complicated historical relation to the development of world health.