tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: "Rethinking the ‘global’ in global health: a dialectic approach"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Rethinking the ‘global’ in global health: a dialectic approachobal’ in global health: a dialectic approach | Bozorgmehr Globalization and Health 2010 6 19 http content 6 1 19 H2 GLOBALIZATION . 7 AND HEALTH DEBATE Open Access Rethinking the global in global health a dialectic approach Kayvan Bozorgmehr Abstract Background Current definitions of global health lack specificity about the term global . This debate presents and discusses existing definitions of global health and a common problem inherent therein. It aims to provide a way forward towards an understanding of global health while avoiding redundancy. The attention is concentrated on the dialectics of different concepts of global in their application to malnutrition HIV tuberculosis malaria and maternal mortality. Further attention is payed to normative objectives attached to global health definitions and to paradoxes involved in attempts to define the field. Discussion The manuscript identifies denotations of global as worldwide as transcending national boundaries and as holistic . A fourth concept of global as supraterritorial is presented and defined as links between the social determinants of health anywhere in the world . The rhetorical power of the denotations impacts considerably on the object of global health exemplified in the context of malnutrition HIV tuberculosis malaria and maternal mortality. The global as worldwide as transcending national boundaries and as holistic house contradictions which can be overcome by the fourth concept of global as supraterritorial . The global-localrelationship inherent in the proposed concept coheres with influential anthropological and sociological views despite the use of different terminology. At the same time it may be assembled with other views on global or amend apparently conflicting ones. The author argues for detaching normative objectives from global health definitions to avoid so called entanglement-problems . Instead it is argued that the proposed concept constitutes an un-euphemistical approach to describe the inherently .