scholarly journals Developing global health awareness in students through participation in an international health sciences conference

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
R.S. Keathley
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Health Awareness

scholarly journals The epidemiology of inequity: Will research make a difference?

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Kristian Heggenhougen
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Conference Centre

This article is adapted from the presentation: “Research for Global Health. Can it stem the Tide of Inequity?”, made to the 4th Students' Scientific Conference, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, 13th of May 2004

Globalization as a ‘determinant of the determinants of health’

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-46
Author(s):  
Ronald Labonté ◽  
Arne Ruckert
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Financing ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

International health, a concern with the high burden of preventable disease in poorer countries, is long-standing. In late nineteenth century sanitary reforms and early twentieth century philanthropic financing to control infectious diseases in the Americas, this concern also foreshadows more contemporary debates over global health financing and the ‘health securitization’ of wealthier nations against diseases spreading from poorer ones. By the late twentieth century, however, there was a shift in discourse from ‘international’ to ‘global’ health underpinned by the growing awareness that there are inherently global reasons for why some countries are wealthier and healthier, while others remain poorer and sicker. Two different frameworks are used to unpack these causal pathways, in which globalization processes are regarded as meta-determinants of health inequities within and between nations. Although researchers argue that globalization processes have been good for health, others are much less sanguine on this claim.

Virtual Orientation of Volunteer Short-Term International Health Teams to Increase Self-Confidence and Cultural and Global Health Competence

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Christopher Herring ◽  
Sydney K. Brown ◽  
Brett T. Morgan ◽  
Julie Thompson ◽  
Anna Kullmar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Health Competence ◽  
Self Confidence

scholarly journals The Stellenbosch Consensus on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-68
Author(s):  
Roojin Habibi ◽  
Steven J. Hoffman ◽  
Gian Luca Burci ◽  
Thana Cristina de Campos ◽  
Danwood Chirwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health Regulations

Abstract The International Health Regulations (ihr), of which the World Health Organization is custodian, govern how countries collectively promote global health security, including prevention, detection, and response to global health emergencies such as the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Countries are permitted to exercise their sovereignty in taking additional health measures to respond to such emergencies if these measures adhere to Article 43 of this legally binding instrument. Overbroad measures taken during recent public health emergencies of international concern, however, reveal that the provision remains inadequately understood. A shared understanding of the measures legally permitted by Article 43 is a necessary step in ensuring the fulfillment of obligations, and fostering global solidarity and resilience in the face of future pandemics. In this consensus statement, public international law scholars specializing in global health consider the legal meaning of Article 43 using the interpretive framework of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

scholarly journals Global Health Training During Residency: The Weill Cornell Tanzania Experience

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan K Hau ◽  
Jennifer I DiPace ◽  
Robert N Peck ◽  
Warren D Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Overall Response Rate ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
International Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract Background In 2007, Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) began annually to send approximately 30 residents in internal medicine and pediatrics to Bugando Medical Center in Mwanza, Tanzania, where they were supervised and mentored by 2 full-time WCMC faculty physicians. Objective To describe the components of the WCMC global health elective and to evaluate the experiences of the participants. Methods Subjects were WCMC residents in internal medicine and pediatrics from the graduating classes of 2007–2009. Electronic surveys were sent to all participants (n  = 57) and to a group of nonparticipants (n  =  57). Results Overall response rate was 58%. The most-selected, primary reasons for participation in the program were an interest in global health and a desire to serve an underprivileged population. Participants rated use of routine laboratory tests in the United States as more overused than did nonparticipants (P  =  .01). After the elective, 62% of participants reported a reduced use of laboratory and/or radiologic tests. All participants (100%; 39 of 39) reported the elective as having a positive effect on their knowledge of international health and tropical medicine. More than 90% of participants (36 of 39) reported the elective as having a positive effect on their physical examination skills. Conclusions Participants of the WCMC global health elective report positive experiences from our multidimensional global health collaboration.

scholarly journals Microbial insurgency: Theorizing global health in the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Hirschfeld
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Trends ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Cold War

Several recent international health crises have revealed significant vulnerabilities in global pandemic preparedness. The 2014 Ebola fever epidemic expanded into an international threat far more quickly than experts anticipated, and the 2018 Ebola fever epidemic continues to expand, even with new technological innovations designed to control the disease. The 2015 yellow fever outbreak in Angola exhausted global vaccine supplies and put millions of people at risk. This article argues that global health authorities failed to anticipate the magnitude of these outbreaks because the field has not been updated to address the ways recent changes in international political economy are combining with environmental instabilities of the Anthropocene to increase epidemiological risks. Many public health textbooks and teaching materials continue to rely on variants of 20th-century modernization theory to explain and predict global health trends. Since the end of the Cold War, however, there has been a dramatic reconfiguration of governance in many parts of the world, and these macro-level changes are accelerating ecological destruction and fueling armed conflict in ways that will reduce the range and effectiveness of public health methods and prevention technologies that were successful during the 20th century. The combined effect of these institutional and environmental changes will increase global pandemic risks in the Anthropocene, even for infectious diseases that are easily preventable today.

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