In 2009 Jeffrey Koplan and coauthors published a widely cited paper in The Lancet titled Towards a Common Definition of Global Health, defining global health as an area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide, marking the field's naming shift away from the older term international health.
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Milestone Year Milestone DateKoplan et al., The Lancet, volume 373 issue 9679, pages 1993-1995. LocationAtlanta, Georgia, United States 2 Sourced to the subject's own accountLead author Jeffrey Koplan was Vice President for Global Health at Emory University in Atlanta at the time of this 2009 paper. Location follows the atlas convention of citing a milestone own originating institution, as already used for the McKeown Thesis own Birmingham and the Seven Countries Study own Minnesota, rather than the publishing journal own base: The Lancet, which published the paper, is edited in London and is not itself the originating institution. Classification
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The paper's definition is credited with marking global health's naming shift away from the older term international health.
Source The Lancet: Towards a Common Definition of Global Health (Koplan et al., 2009)
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In 2009 Jeffrey Koplan and coauthors published a widely cited paper in The Lancet titled Towards a Common Definition of Global Health, defining global health as an area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide, marking the field's naming shift away from the older term international health.
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Vice President for Global Health at Emory University
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