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What is International Health? return to TOP of index page

-here are some possible aspects:

Health work carried out in countries other than your own. Usually people think of work being carried out in less privileged countries as being "International".
Health care for the underprivileged
Medicine relating to travel, or to conditions encountered in foreign lands. "Travel Medicine"
Health care under conditions of poverty or mass migration (refugees)
Tropical Disease management and control, control of infectious diseases.
A view of Medicine from the perspective of International agencies such as the WHO, UNICEF, and donor agencies
usually thought of as the practice of Primary Health Care, or Community Health approaches, but should also be thought of as clinical work.

A more formal definition gleaned from www.troped.org

International Health focuses on poverty-related health problems in low
and middle income countries. It includes the promotion of health,
prevention and treatment of diseases, palliative care and
rehabilitation. The main emphasis is on studies on health systems,
health economics, health policy and management of health services.

International Health integrates a number of disciplines including (in
alphabetical order):

anthropology,
biology,
clinical and nursing sciences,
demography,
economics,
epidemiology,
nutrition,
psychology,
public health,
sociology,
statistics,
travel & migrant health and tropical medicine.