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Global Challenges: Global Health [PDF]
Global Challenges, 2015 [Image: see text]
John-Arne Røttingen, Steven J. Hoffman
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The Global in Global Health is Not a Given [PDF]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017 The process of globalization is commonly espoused as a means for promoting global health. Efforts to “go global” can, however, easily go awry as a result of lack of attention to local social, economic, and political contexts and/or as a result of commercial and political imperatives that allow local populations to be exploited. Critical analysis of the
Ian Kerridge +4 more
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Globalization and Global Health [PDF]
International Journal of Technoethics, 2015 Globalization shrinks the world. The world watches on television people dying of hunger or in extreme poverty conditions. Every year, 8 million children die before they reach the age of 5 from preventable diseases. “Exotic illnesses” cease to be so exotic, they can cross borders easily.
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Globalization and Health [PDF]
Globalization and Health, 2005 Abstract This debut editorial of Globalization and Health introduces the journal, briefly delineating its goals and objectives and outlines its scope of subject matter. 'Open Access' publishing is expected to become an increasingly important format for peer reviewed academic journals and that Globalization and Health is 'Open Access' is ...
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Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2019 Global health is a field of expertise that has emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century alongside changing disease profiles, health technologies, and governance structures. This entry provides an overview of the historical conditions that have given rise to the field.
Yates-Doerr, E., Maes, K.
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Globalization, Global Health, and Disaster [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 The importance of Globalization and its effect on global health often becomes highlighted during disasters, as in the case of a large scale earthquake or the emergence of a new infectious disease. If a disaster occurs in low and middle income countries, such countries often do not have the capacity to handle an immediate response in terms of rescue ...
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Is global health really global? [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2013 This editorial is based on a keynote address given at the International Conference on Global Public Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka, in December 2012. It accompanies a set of papers which were also presented at the conference. So far, these papers describe a range of global health issues, from the health status of the United Arab Emirates through to social ...
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013 Global health reflects the realities of globalization, including worldwide dissemination of infectious and noninfectious public health risks. Global health architecture is complex and better coordination is needed between multiple organizations. Three overlapping themes determine global health action and prioritization: development, security, and ...
Patricia M. Simone +3 more
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Global Health Solidarity [PDF]
Public Health Ethics, 2016 For much of the 20th century, vulnerability to deprivations of health has often been defined by geographical and economic factors. Those in wealthy, usually 'Northern' and 'Western', parts of the world have benefited from infrastructures, and accidents of geography and climate, which insulate them from many serious threats to health. Conversely, poorer
Peter G. N. West-Oram, Alena Buyx
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Global Health Security in an Era of Global Health Threats [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 To the Editor: Global health security is the protection of the health of persons and societies worldwide. It includes access to medicines, vaccines, and health care, as well as reductions in collective vulnerabilities to global public health events that have the potential to spread across borders.
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