Global Health in Transition: A Synthesis: Perspectives from International Organizations (1996)

Summary: There has been an explosion of analytic documents, published since the start of this decade, that deal mainly with health in developing countries. Each document in this report advances understanding of specific challenges to health in the development process, and each raises further questions. Each assesses the current status of the area of health or social development with which it is most concerned; expands on the ideas and methods its authors wish to advance; proposes strategies; and then reflects on their likely impacts, shortfalls, and policy implications. What we have been calling “international health” may need to be rethought in a more comprehensive way as “global health.”