Global health security is focused on which of the following?

• A. Improving internal hospital revenue.
• B. Preparedness, detection, and response to health threats that cross borders.
• C. Local disease management only.
• D. Clinical trial recruitment.

Answer: (B)

Global health security centers on preventing, detecting, and responding to health threats that cross borders by strengthening surveillance, laboratories, rapid response, and international coordination. It’s about stopping outbreaks early and coordinating across countries to prevent local events from becoming regional or global crises. Systems like shared disease reporting, trained response teams, and international agreements (such as reporting requirements to organizations like WHO) embody this focus.

The other options miss this cross-border emphasis or are outside the security and outbreak-prevention scope. Improving internal hospital revenue is about finances, local disease management alone doesn’t address international spread, and clinical trial recruitment relates to research rather than protection against cross-border health threats.