Home›Public Health Programs›Associated With›Global HealthBranchGlobal HealthPopulation Health FieldGlobe with a CrossReference and ClassificationDevelopingThe branch of public health concerned with the health of populations worldwide rather than within any single country. The World Health Organization's Health Promotion Glossary of Terms 2021 defines it as achieving health equity at a global level by addressing the transnational health issues, determinants, and the interventions and formal structures which are beyond the control of the institutions of individual countries. Its scope therefore reaches cross-border threats such as pandemics alongside the worldwide distribution of the conditions that shape health, and its defining commitment, on the WHO's framing, is that equity in health belongs to all people worldwide.FactsGlobal HealthConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsCentral QuestionWell-attestedHow can the transnational determinants of health be addressed so that people everywhere, regardless of the country they live in, can attain equity in health? 1Key DebateWell-attestedA single university-based research institute, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, now produces the Global Burden of Disease estimates that guide much global health funding and policy, a role historically associated with the World Health Organization itself; whether an independent academic institute or the United Nations health agency should be the authoritative source for global health statistics is a live institutional debate. 2Key DebateWell-attestedGlobal health is widely regarded as having grown out of the colonial era international health tradition, and scholars have called for its decolonization, describing the field's own ecosystem as functioning like a feudal structure serving a small group of high income country institutions. 3Key DebateWell-attestedGlobal health's own defining methodological dispute is whether limited funding should run vertically, targeted at single diseases with easily measured results, or horizontally, strengthening the general health systems that every disease-specific program ultimately depends on. Vertical programs are easier to fund and to show dramatic results from, but critics hold that they create parallel funding and management structures, distort national health priorities and do little to strengthen the overall health system, which in turn has been blamed for slow progress on health goals such as maternal and child mortality that depend on strong general services. A proposed diagonal approach, pursuing disease-specific goals by means that also strengthen the wider health system, has been offered as a reconciliation, but the underlying tension over how global health money should be spent remains unresolved. 4Global HealthFilter Results14 entriesGeographic ScopeAllEleven countries of West Africa's river basins (1)Global (1)Global, targeting all leprosy-endemic countries (1)Southern Cone region of South America (1)The Americas (Latin America) (1)Health GoalAllGlobally eradicate yaws (1)StatusAllActive, current ten-year strategy phase running 2021 to 2030 (1)Active, near completion (1)Ongoing (3)Ongoing (WHO renewed elimination effort targeting 2020) (1)Ongoing, nearing completion (1)Era (Launch Year)All1955 (1)1967 (1)1974 (1)1986 (1)1988 (1)1991 (1)1992 (1)1995 (1)1996 (1)2000 (1)2001 (1)2018 (1)2021 (1)Program KindAllDisease Surveillance Program (2)Vaccination or Immunization Program (4)Vector Control Program (8)Where (Country)AllAfrica (6)Asia (5)Australia (1)Latin America (1)Oceania (1)South America (2)South Asia (2)Southern Cone (1)Sub-Saharan Africa (2)West Africa (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 14African Programme for Onchocerciasis ControlGlobal HealthGlobal Elimination of Trachoma by 2020Global HealthGlobal Malaria Eradication ProgrammeGlobal HealthGlobal Polio Eradication InitiativeGlobal HealthGlobal Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic FilariasisGlobal HealthGuinea Worm Eradication ProgramGlobal HealthMeasles & Rubella PartnershipGlobal HealthOnchocerciasis Control ProgrammeGlobal HealthOnchocerciasis Elimination Program for the AmericasGlobal HealthSmallpox Eradication ProgrammeGlobal HealthSouthern Cone Initiative to Eliminate Chagas Disease TransmissionGlobal HealthWHO Global Leprosy StrategyGlobal HealthYaws Eradication ProgrammeGlobal HealthZero by 30: Global Strategic Plan to End Human Deaths from Dog-Mediated RabiesGlobal HealthConnectionsAssociated WithAfrican Programme for Onchocerciasis Control, Public Health Programs Well-attested Global Elimination of Trachoma by 2020, Public Health Programs Well-attested Global Malaria Eradication Programme, Public Health Programs Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Global Malaria Eradication ProgrammeWikipedia contributorsGlobal Polio Eradication Initiative, Public Health Programs Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Global Polio Eradication InitiativeWikipedia contributorsGlobal Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, Public Health Programs Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic FilariasisWikipedia contributorsGuinea Worm Eradication Program, Public Health Programs Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Guinea Worm Eradication ProgramWikipedia contributorsImplementation Science, Branches Well-attested Source PMC: Welcome to Implementation Science (Eccles and Mittman, 2006)London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Institutions Well-attested Source LSHTM WebsiteMeasles & Rubella Partnership, Public Health Programs Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Measles & Rubella PartnershipWikipedia contributorsOnchocerciasis Control Programme, Public Health Programs Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Onchocerciasis Control ProgrammeWikipedia contributorsOnchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas, Public Health Programs Well-attested Peter Piot, Figures Well-attested ConnectedPeter Piot, co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS from 1995 to 2008.Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Branches Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Health Emergencies Programmetier 3Publication of Towards a Common Definition of Global Health, Milestones Well-attested 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)Smallpox Eradication Programme, Public Health Programs Well-attested Southern Cone Initiative to Eliminate Chagas Disease Transmission, Public Health Programs Well-attested WHO Global Leprosy Strategy, Public Health Programs Well-attested Yaws Eradication Programme, Public Health Programs Well-attested Zero by 30: Global Strategic Plan to End Human Deaths from Dog-Mediated Rabies, Public Health Programs Well-attested In BranchPublic Health, Branches Well-attested Source Health Promotion Glossary of Terms 2021IncludesChristopher J. L. Murray, Figures Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Christopher J.L. Murraytier 2Expanded Programme on Immunization, Practices Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Expanded Programme on Immunizationtier 2First Malaria Vaccine Recommendation, Milestones Well-attested Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Institutions Well-attested Source Wikipedia: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluationtier 2Launch of Mass Polio Vaccination, Milestones Well-attested Publication of Towards a Common Definition of Global Health, Milestones Well-attested Source The Lancet: Towards a Common Definition of Global Health (Koplan et al., 2009)Resolve to Save Lives, Institutions Well-attested Source Resolve to Save Lives: Dr. Tom Frieden BiographySources1. Health Promotion Glossary of Terms 2021World Health Organization, 2021Entry: Global healthAchieving health equity at a global level by addressing the transnational health issues, determinants, and the interventions and formal structures which are beyond the control of the institutions of individual countries.In Branch: Public Health, Entry: Global health, scopeView the Source2. Wikipedia: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluationtier 2WikipediaLead sectionThe Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is a public health research institute of the University of Washington in Seattle.Includes: Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationView the Source3. Wikipedia: Global Healthtier 2WikipediaHistory sectionQuote, History sectionGlobal health as a discipline is frequently regarded to be of imperial origin, and there have been calls for its decolonisation.View the Source4. The diagonal approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems? (Ooms et al., 2008)tier 1Globalization and Health (BioMed Central), 2008Background section, openingQuote, Background section, openingThe potentially destructive polarisation between vertical and horizontal financing of health services in developing countries has found its way to the pages of Foreign Affairs and the Financial Times.View the SourceLSHTM WebsiteLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineAssociated With: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Introducing LSHTM, global health researchView the SourceWikipedia: Expanded Programme on Immunizationtier 2WikipediaIncludes: Expanded Programme on ImmunizationView the SourceWikipedia: Christopher J.L. Murraytier 2WikipediaIncludes: Christopher J. L. MurrayView the SourceResolve to Save Lives: Dr. Tom Frieden BiographyResolve to Save LivesIncludes: Resolve to Save LivesView the SourceThe Lancet: Towards a Common Definition of Global Health (Koplan et al., 2009)The LancetIncludes: Publication of Towards a Common Definition of Global HealthAssociated With: Publication of Towards a Common Definition of Global HealthView the SourcePMC: Welcome to Implementation Science (Eccles and Mittman, 2006)Implementation Science (BioMed Central), via PubMed CentralAssociated With: Implementation ScienceView the SourceWikipedia: Health Emergencies Programmetier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Public Health Emergency PreparednessView the SourceWikipedia: Global Malaria Eradication ProgrammeWikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Global Malaria Eradication ProgrammeWikipedia: Global Polio Eradication InitiativeWikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Global Polio Eradication InitiativeWikipedia: Guinea Worm Eradication ProgramWikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Guinea Worm Eradication ProgramWikipedia: Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic FilariasisWikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic FilariasisWikipedia: Onchocerciasis Control ProgrammeWikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Onchocerciasis Control ProgrammeWikipedia: Measles & Rubella PartnershipWikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Measles & Rubella PartnershipComments (0)No comments yet. 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