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. 2004 Mar 15;113(6):799–804. doi: 10.1172/JCI21328

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The global health governance “pincer” captures how the WHO’s power to use nongovernmental sources of surveillance information on infectious diseases and to issue alerts and advisories independently of its Member States reduces the sovereign state’s discretion in how it responds to infectious disease outbreaks.