Global Health Education
by Uma Gupta
1. GLOBAL HEALTH
1.1. An area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide’ (Koplan) or ‘Those health issues that transcend national boundaries and governments and call for actions on the global forces that determine the health of people’ (Kickbush)
2. Difference between GH, PH and International Health
3. HEALTH
3.1. “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” WHO (1948)
4. Equity vs Equality