Table 3 Global and International Health: What are the differences?
From: Global health ethics: critical reflections on the contours of an emerging field, 1977–2015
Global Health | International Health | |
|---|---|---|
Geography | Focuses on issues that transcend national boundaries | Focuses on issues of countries other than one’s own, especially on those of LMIC |
Cooperation | Solutions often require global cooperation | Solutions require bi-national cooperation |
Objective | Health equity for all peoples, regardless of nationality | Seeks to help those in other countries, particularly through aid going from HIC to LIC |
Scope | Inter and multi-disciplinary – beyond the health sciences; including issues directly or indirectly affecting health | May overlap several disciplines but not multi-disciplinary; focus on health issues |