… will, I hope, encourage those in global health to think more critically about their field. I
recognize from the start that such a broadly synthetic history cannot be comprehensive. Space …

… This paper uses the terms international health and global health according to general usage
in the historical period under discussion. The term international health was likely coined in …

In imagining the ‘global’ as the product of unprecedented flows and circulations, do we tend
to ignore its uneven terrain, heterogeneity, and contestation? How might we resist taking the …

… needs today, it may seem unexpected to find several chapters dedicated to the history of
international health. Nonetheless, as we will see, contemporary patterns, priorities, and …

… multiple inconsistent sets of global health statistics. This paper reviews the history of global
burden of disease assessment at WHO and issues for its future role in global health statistics. …

… Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some
reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health. …

… high-quality primary health care an essential feature of their national health systems.
Following this declaration, in 1981 WHO adopted a global strategy for achieving health for all by …

… global account of public health’s long and fascinating history benefited from his skills as a
historian and from his experiences as a public health … preparing new histories of global health. …

… ) issued a declaration identifying global health as ‘a pressing foreign … global health has a
profound impact on all nations – developed and developing. Ensuring public health on a global …

… This article comprehensively analyses the new IHR by examining the history of international
law on infectious disease control, the IHR revision process, the substantive changes …