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Fundamentally, global health is about achieving better health outcomes for vulnerable populations and communities around the world. Those who study or practice global health work to eliminate health disparities in low-resource settings around the world through research, education and collaborative intervention.
Global health is the health of the populations in the worldwide context; it has been defined as "the area of study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide".
Jun 3, 2021 · Global health entails ensuring the conditions of good health—public health, universal health coverage and the social determinants of health—while justice requires closing today’s vast domestic and global health inequities.
- Melissa Salm, Mahima Ali, Mairead Minihane, Patricia Conrad
- 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005292
- 2021
- BMJ Glob Health. 2021; 6(6): e005292.
Apr 7, 2020 · The call for “W orking Together to Build a Community of Shared Future for Mankind” requires us to improve people’s health across the globe, while global health development entails a satisfactory answer to a fundamental question: “What is global health?”
- Xinguang Chen, Xinguang Chen, Hao Li, Hao Li, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno, Abu S. Abdullah, Jiayan Huan...
- 2020
- Improving Health
- Achieving Equity
- Reaching Beyond Borders
- Uniting Disciplines
- Building Partnerships
While health is often thought of in a physical or health care context, its meaning is much broader. Health refers not only to the absence of illness, but also, as defined in the 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organization, “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.” Improving health requires attention to all three of these...
Everyone should have the opportunity to live a life that supports good health. However, vast differences in people’s environments, resources, and social statuses affect the choices available to them. Achieving equity in health means addressing social and environmental determinants and eliminating disparities in health systems and health care access...
Global health deals with health issues and determinants that are transnational, meaning they affect multiple countries. Examples of health issues that transcend borders include infectious diseases that travel between countries, as well as noncommunicable diseases and conditions that affect many populations around the world. Climate change and pollu...
Global health issues involve a complex interplay of factors, many of which exist beyond the confines of a clinic. They must be approached from multiple angles: cultural, economic, environmental, infrastructural, political, social, and technological. The involvement of many disciplines, both within and beyond the health sciences, brings the perspect...
No one sector or organization can achieve global health solutions on its own. The complexity of the problems involved requires alliances that bring together different perspectives, organizations, and skills. By building partnerships that exchange knowledge and capabilities among countries and stakeholders, including those most affected by these pro...
May 12, 2021 · Global health. International health. Globalization. Political economy of health. Global health partnerships. Introduction: Redefining Global Health in Face of COVID19. As we were working on this chapter, the world is facing a global (health) crisis unprecedented in the last century.
Mar 16, 2018 · What Is Global Health? We have made advances in global health, but we face challenges from new disease trends—and need funding to treat them. Last Updated. March 16, 2018. Download...
