[afro-nets] RFI: Difference between International health and...(3)

[Oladele A. Ogunseitan <oaogunse@uci.edu>]

RFI: Difference between International health and Global health (3)
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There are many "international" cities, where one can find resi-
dents from many parts of the world bringing different predispo-
sitions to different diseases, and exhibiting different disease
burdens. The ability to understand the commerce of disease bur-
den across national boundaries is international health.

Global health has maintained two meanings. One is disciplinary -
understanding and managing all the risk factors contributing to
disease in a population can be termed global (cultural, psycho-
logical, physical, and environmental factors). This is however,
better termed comprehensive health. Global health, in the con-
text of World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease as-
sessments is an attempt to treat the entire human population as
the target for practicing public health tasks.

Hope this helps.

Dele

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Oladele A. Ogunseitan, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Department of Environmental Health, Science, and Policy
Director, Program in Industrial Ecology
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-7070, USA
Tel: +1-949-824-6350
Fax: +1-949-824-2056
mailto:oaogunse@uci.edu