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Description Global health is the health of populations in the global context; it has been defined as "the area of … More Global health is the health of populations in the global context; it has been defined as "the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide". Problems that transcend national borders or have a global political and economic impact are often emphasized. Thus, global health is about worldwide health improvement (including mental health), reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders. Global health is not to be confused with international health, which is defined as the branch of public health focusing on developing nations and foreign aid efforts by industrialized countries. Global health can be measured as a function of various global diseases and their prevalence in the world and threat to decrease life in the present day.
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Carolin Mezes; Sven Opitz; Andrea Wiegeshoff
(2025)
Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective.
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Susan Heydon
(2025)
Implementing a global health programme: Smallpox and Nepal.
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Article
Alice Street; Emma Michelle Taylor
(2024)
Equivocal diagnostics: Making a ‘good’ point-of-care test for elimination in global health.
Social Studies of Science
(pp. 836-858).
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Book
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
(2023)
Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects.
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Thesis
Shinyi Hsieh
(2023)
Pluralizing Postcoloniality from a Standpoint of Margins: A Historical Detour of Global Health and Imperial Regimes in Postwar Taiwan Through the Traces of the Marginalized.
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Article
Erik Aarden
(2022)
Ignorance and the paradoxes of evidence-based global health: the case of mortality statistics in India’s million death study.
Science as Culture
(pp. 433-454).
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Atsuko Naono
(2022)
“Going ‘the Last Mile’ to Eliminate Malaria” in Myanmar?.
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
(pp. 119-132).
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Cristiana Bastos
(2022)
The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis, AIDS, and Measles.
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
(pp. 155-170).
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Article
Christoph Gradmann
(2022)
This is the End: Eradicating Tuberculosis in Modern Times.
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
(pp. 171-180).
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Jean-Paul Gaudillière; Andrew McDowell; Claudia Lang; et al.
(2022)
Global Health for All: Knowledge, Politics, and Practices.
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Pierre Minn
(2022)
Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti.
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Elsa L. Fan
(2021)
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China.
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Book
Mika, Marissa Anne; Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui; Vaughan, Megan
(2021)
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Article
Frank Huisman; Nancy Tomes
(2021)
A World South-Side Up?: Global Health and the Provincializing of Europe.
European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health
(pp. 195-212).
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Article
Monica Green
(2021)
Global Health in a Semi-Globalized World: History of Infectious Diseases in the Medieval Period.
Isis Bibliography of the History of Science.
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Article
Alexandra Widmer; Christine Winter
(2021)
Health and Medicine during and after the Pacific War: Pacific Islanders, Institutions, Infrastructure, Ingenuities.
Health and History
(pp. 1-9).
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Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
(2021)
Contingent Futures, Continuous Pasts: Experts, Activists and Social and Disease Transitions (1950–80s).
In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
(pp. 80-105).
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David Reubi
(2021)
Pathologies of Modernisation: Epidemiological Imaginaries and the Smoking Epidemic in Postcolonial Africa.
In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
(pp. 133-161).
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Bruce Benton
(2020)
Riverblindness in Africa: Taming the Lion's Stare.
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Jean-Paul Gaudillière; Claire Beaudevin; Christoph Gradmann; et al.
(2020)
Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance.
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