Open AccessGlobal health: what's in it for us?
Author(s) -
Kathryn Brown
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.971051056
Subject(s) - global health , government (linguistics) , economic growth , private sector , public health , health care , international health , developing country , business , political science , public relations , health policy , public administration , environmental health , medicine , economics , linguistics , philosophy , nursing
A new report, America's Vital Interest in Global Health, released in June by the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Board on International Health, calls for increased U.S. foreign health care spending to fund research and education about diseases of the developing world, a global surveillance system to spot environmental changes and emerging disease conditions, public and private sector partnerships to distribute vaccines and drugs overseas, and a new government body to help coordinate these efforts. The report argues that, in an increasingly global society, the United States can't afford to ignore its neighbors' problems, for economic as well as social reasons.