Security and global health dimensions of security author elbe stefan april 2010 elbe stefan books amazonca. The impact of covid 19 both globally and in canada has raised important questions about best practices with regard to global and domestic health surveillance early warning and preparedness critical to an understanding of these issues is a clear sighted appreciation of the interface between health security and national security as the world embarks on an intense effort to explain the onset . Global security instead has five dimensions that include human environmental national transnational and transcultural security and therefore global security and the security of any state or culture cannot be achieved without good governance at all levels that guarantees security through justice for all individuals states and cultures. Drawing on human security and traditional security frameworks this chapter explores the complex relationship between global health and human security it examines this relationship in the context of 1 global health and violence 2 global health and poverty and 3 global health and infectious diseases the states capacity to deal with