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- Title: Being Global in Public Health Practice and Research: Complementary Competencies are Needed (Commentary) (Report)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 276 KB
Description
Public health practitioners, educators and researchers have long been involved in international health and now global health. Global health arose from the spaces where population and public health, health promotion, and international development converge. Although global health as a field is in a state of flux, (1,2) "global" captures the scope and interconnectedness of public health--transcending political borders and boundaries, in keeping with the Canadian Public Health Association's tagline "Across Canada and Around the World". International colleagues (3) and the United States Association of Schools of Public Health (http://www.asph.org/) have taken the position that "Global health is public health." Public health researchers in Canada have advocated for global health research (4) and supported the Canadian Global Health Research Initiative (http://www.idrc.ca/ghri/). The Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Population and Public Health has been particularly inclusive of global health research (http://www.cihrirsc.gc.ca/e/documents/ipph_strategic_plan_e.pdf). Within this context of evolving and overlapping concepts and fields of practice and research are questions related to the necessary competencies, capacities, skill sets, or abilities to engage in global health practice and research.