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[英文摘要] :
Over the past decade, remarkable and sustainable progresses have been made
in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region in the domain of
communicable disease control. Nevertheless, communicable diseases remain an important
public health issue in the region. In December 2009, within the framework of its
Regional Programming for Asia (2007–2013), the European Union (EU) launched a
Regional Program on Highly Pathogenic and Emerging Diseases (HPED) in Asia. This
4-year interregional cooperation initiative aimed at enable ASEAN to control zoonoses
and to improve pandemic preparedness in the region. Assessing this interregional
initiative, the main objective of this paper is to shed light on the nature and functions
of health interregionalism between Asia and Europe and its influence on regional health
governance. It concludes that while in the specific context of the EU-ASEAN HPED
program, health interregionalism had varied functions and a substantial influence on
regional health governance, this initiative did not use the full potential that interregional
health mechanism may provide to influence the development of another region or to
promote the EU’s specific actorness in regional and global health.