Global health capacity and workforce development: turning the world upside down.
Crisp, Nigel;
(2011)
Global health capacity and workforce development: turning the world upside down.
Infect Dis Clin North Am, 25 (2).
pp. 359-367.
ISSN 0891-5520
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2011.02.010
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This article explores global health and the way in which the whole world is increasingly interdependent in terms of health. High-income countries need to help redress the balance of power and resources around the world, for self interest and self preservation if for no other reason. These countries have a particular responsibility to help support the training of more health workers and to strengthen health systems in low-income and middle-income countries. In this interdependent world, high-income countries can learn a great deal from poorer ones as well as vice versa, and concepts of mutuality and codevelopment will become increasingly important.