The Impact of International Conflicts on Global Health Security

Health Security includes many aspects of healthcare services in which it is a goal that Public Health would aim to achieve.Health Security might include easy access into the healthcare systems into all the services including preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic, awareness, and health literacy whether nationwide or globally.Aiming for Health Security internationally is Global Health Security.However, Global Health Security could be impacted negatively by any kind of conflict.Per Professor Christopher J.L. Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation "Conflicts is a major contributor to ill health worldwide, both from the direct physical impacts of war and cascading effects on health systems".Therefore "We must make the avoidance of conflict a top priority for health" to achieve and then to maintain Global Health Security.The political and the armed conflicts have been proven to be related to each other and such conflicts have significantly and negatively impacted on the healthcare system where the conflicts are.Conflicts between countries and civil local wars affected dramatically on the healthcare systems nationally and internationally due to damaging the healthcare infrastructure examples of countries like Iraq, Syria, and other areas of conflicts having declined and reduced quality in healthcare services due to damaged infrastructures including the healthcare systems.Therefore, such a topic needs to be addressed and then to be considered seriously by the international community.