TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - International and Global Health A1 - White, Franklin M.M. A1 - Nanan, Debra J. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2017 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - International Health is a well-established branch of public health, with origins in the health situation of developing nations and the efforts of industrialized countries to assist them. It has always considered issues transcending national jurisdiction, for example, quarantine regulations. However, the field has recently extended to Global Health, emphasizing global cooperation for solutions. While problems like unsafe drinking water affect mainly local communities within countries, others have worldwide impact, for example, air pollution, drug trafficking, and tobacco marketing. Although local and national actions are essential, these also require additional global action, for example, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.1 Regardless of the levels of solutions (local, national, international, global), at the core of the world's health problems lie enormous inequities in economic and social conditions, and the right to health remains unfulfilled for most of the world's people. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141962348 ER -