Academic Global Health

Abstract

Health globally faces a variety of challenges and barriers that need to be tackled. Global Health is a new discipline which considers (i) health of people in all nations worldwide as a consequence of globalisation (horizontal issues) and (ii) the complex influences of social determinants of health as comparable for all people (vertical issues). Academic global health approach recognises that interdependencies are increasingly relevant, while territorial boundaries become increasingly irrelevant, and that to understand both health challenges and needed solutions, the complexity of globalisation influences that transcend, or are oblivious to, territorial boundaries are beyond the capacity of individual nation states’ domestic institutions to address[...]