Erschienen in:
01.08.2011 | Editorials
Trainee Safety in Global Health
verfasst von:
Madhavi Dandu, MD, MPH
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 8/2011
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Excerpt
Global health, in its many permutations (tropical medicine and hygiene, international health, and international public health), has long been a valued realm of the health professions. Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in interest among health professional trainees in global health training as well as a flurry of new global health training programs arising at academic institutions throughout North America. Factors behind this trend include globalization, increasing migration, greater consciousness of the sociopolitical determinants of health, as well as a major increase in philanthropic support for global health. In addition, natural and man-made catastrophes such as the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 have led to calls for universal training in global health and disaster medical relief. …