Practical Aspects of International Health Problems

1926 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Frank G. Boudreau
Keyword(s):  
International Health ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
International Health Problems

World Health and World Politics

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Communicable Disease ◽  
International Health ◽  
World Politics ◽  
World Health ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
World Community ◽  
International Health Problems ◽  
Working Together ◽  
National Boundaries

The nations of the modern world community have been working together on international health problems for a century and a half. They have collaborated because they have realized that disease does not respect national boundaries. In doing so, these states have learned that their selfinterests are best served by world-wide collective action to eradicate communicable disease and to promote positive health conditions everywhere.

scholarly journals Coronavirus mapping in scientific publications: when science advances rapidly and collectively, is access to this knowledge open to society?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Belli ◽  
Rogério Mugnaini ◽  
Joan Baltà ◽  
Ernest Abadal
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
International Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
International Health Problems ◽  
Access Policies

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a global health emergency. Mapping this health emergency in scientific publications demands multiple approaches to obtain a picture as complete as possible. To progress in the knowledge of this pandemic and to control its effects, international collaborations between researchers are essentials, as well as having open and immediate access to scientific publications, what we called “coopetition”. The following questions have been addressed: Which are the countries with the most scientific publications, how do organizations collaborate (international scientific collaborations) and how much impact can be observed? What percentage of these publications and cited references are open access (identifying countries and organizations)?We have analyzed 18,875 articles indexed in Web of Science. We performed the descriptive statistical analysis in order to explore the performance of the more prolific countries and organizations, as well as paying attention to the last two years. Registers have been analyzed separately via the VOSviewer software, drawing a network of links among countries and organizations to identify the starred countries and organizations, and the strongest links of the net.We have explored the capacity of researchers to generate scientific knowledge about a health crisis emergency, and their global capacity to collaborate among them in a global emergency. We consider that science is moving rapidly to find solutions to international health problems but access to this knowledge by society is not so quick due to several limitations (open access policies, corporate interests, etc.). We have observed that papers from China in the last 3 months (from January 2020 to March 2020) have a strong impact compared with papers published in years before. The United States and China are the major producers of documents of our sample, followed by all European countries, especially the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. At the same time, the leading role of Saudi Arabia, Canada or South Korea should be noted, with a significant number of documents submitted but very different dynamics of international collaboration.

World Helath Organization

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-366
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
World Health ◽  
Member States ◽  
World Health Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
First World ◽  
Health Experts

Pending the ratification of the Constitution of WHO by 26 members of the United Nations which will bring the Organization into existence, the Interim Commission, under the chairmanship of Dr. Andrija Stampar (Yugoslavia) and composed of health experts representing 18 Member States, has proceeded, as a provisional body, with the work of unifying international health operations and services. It had considered solutions for present urgent health problems and laid the groundwork for the convoking of the first World Health Assembly.

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