TY - JOUR T1 - World population, world health and security: 20th century trends JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 187 LP - 190 DO - 10.1136/jech.2006.055608 VL - 62 IS - 3 AU - A Bashford Y1 - 2008/03/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/62/3/187.abstract N2 - The connection between infectious disease control and national security is now firmly entrenched. This article takes a historical look at another security issue once prominent in debate on foreign policy and international relations, but now more or less absent: overpopulation. It explores the nature of the debate on population as a security question, and its complicated historical relation to the development of world health. ER -