Global Health Security Index 2021
- December 10, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Global Health Security Index 2021
Subject – Governance
Context – World unprepared for future pandemics: Global Health Security Index 2021
Concept –
- The Global Health Security Index is an assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries prepared by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
- The world remains unprepared for future epidemic and pandemic threats. Countries across all income levels remain dangerously unprepared to meet future epidemic and pandemic threats, according to the new 2021 Global Health Security (GHS) Index released December 8, 2021.
- The world’s overall performance on the GHS Index score slipped to 38.9 (out of 100) in 2021, from a score of 40.2 in the GHS Index, 2019.
- In South Asia, India, with a score of 42.8 (out of 100) too, has slipped by 0.8 points since 2019.
- In 2021, no country scored in the top tier of rankings and no country scored above 75.9, the report showed.
- It has assessed countries across six categories, 37 indicators and 171 questions, using instantly available information.
The six categories are –