Global health, as a field of study, research, and practice, has grown in prominence over the past two decades. This chapter sets out what “global health” is and outlines key principles and core concepts of relevance for the field. It goes on to take a historical look at the origins of...
'Public health': The definition given by Winslow 1 in 1920 has been widely accepted: 2 "Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting physical health and efficacy through organized community efforts for the sanita-tion of the environment, the control ...
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a sub-field of Global Public Health. The cornerstone of our approach is to improve the public’s health through striving for excellence in research, advocacy, and educational initiatives. We utilize a broad and holistic definition of health, to include mental, physical, sexual, and social dimensi...
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defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (World Health Organization,2014). The WHO has offered the following definition of public health (see Table1for similar definitions of public health from the USA)...
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The term global health governance (GHG) is now widely used, with over one thousand works published in the scholarly literature, almost all since 2002. Amid this rapid growth there is considerable variation in how the term is defined and applied, generati
Improving the health and wellbeing of the world's people is at the core of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reflected in targets that call for ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria; achieving enormous improvements in maternal and child health; and tackling the growing...
However, this consensus stops short of a standardized, testable GH curriculum for all medical schools, although some experts have issued a call for standardization on the definition of global health and GH education [10, 28]. Similar to how the Flexner report brought coherence to medical ...