In the Name of Global Health: Trends in Academic Institutions
In the Name of Global Health: Trends in Academic Institutions
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DOI：
10.1057/jphp.2008.25
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Kaaya, Ephata E.
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作者：
Macfarlane, Sarah B.;Jacobs, Marian;Kaaya, Ephata E.
本文介绍了全球健康计划的加速发展，特别是在北美的学术机构，并设置这种现象的背景下，热带医学和国际卫生，主要起源于欧洲的早期计划。与这些早期的项目一样，新的全球卫生项目的主要重点是发展中国家的卫生需求，也许正是由于这个原因，发展中国家的学术机构本身很少出现类似的项目。如果全球卫生是关于改善全世界的健康状况，减少差距，保护社会免受无视国界的全球威胁，那么学术机构跨越地理，文化，经济，性别和语言界限来发展对全球卫生范围的相互理解并创建合作教育和研究计划至关重要。成功的一个标志是出现了新一代真正的全球领导人，他们致力于共同和明确的议程--而且是在平等的基础上这样做。
This paper describes accelerating development of programs in global health, particularly in North American academic institutions, and sets this phenomenon in the context of earlier programs in tropical medicine and international health that originated predominantly in Europe. Like these earlier programs, the major focus of the new global health programs is on the health needs of developing countries, and perhaps for this reason, few similar programs have emerged in academic institutions in the developing countries themselves. If global health is about the improvement of health worldwide, the reduction of disparities, and protection of societies against global threats that disregard national borders, it is essential that academic institutions reach across geographic, cultural, economic, gender, and linguistic boundaries to develop mutual understanding of the scope of global health and to create collaborative education and research programs. One indication of success would be emergence of a new generation of truly global leaders working on a shared and well-defined agenda - and doing so on equal footing.