Taking Care of Vulnerable Populations as Global Health – Case Reports on...
By Nathan Douthit According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a refugee is someone who,” owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality,...
View ArticleComplementary and Alternative Medicine and Their Effect on Global Health
By Nathan Douthit According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is on the rise. The US National Institute of Health defines complementary...
View ArticleUse of Telemedicine to Deliver Global Medical Care
By Nathan Douthit Telemedicine is an important developing field for global health. Its use has been endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), Medecins Sans Frontieres and multiple other national...
View ArticleStigma as a Barrier to Global Health Care
By Nathan Douthit “People who are excluded…are not ‘just like’ the rest of the poor, only poorer. They are also disadvantaged by who they are or where they live, and as a result, are locked out of the...
View ArticleCultural Competence in Global Health
By Nathan Douthit [I]n the…aim to produce cultural competence, one dimension to be avoided is… narrowly defining competence… in its traditional sense: an easily demonstrable mastery of a finite body of...
View ArticleSelf-medication and access to care in Global Health
By Nathan Douthit I am a local village doctor. I came to the eye hospital escorted by two people in view of my severe eye condition and blindness. Fortunately, I was immediately relieved of my symptoms...
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Making a difference in the developing world
By Marcus Chong In 2016, while conducting medical research in a rural village of Northern Samar, the Philippines, Professor Allen Ross and his global health research team met a patient with severe...
View ArticleMaking a Difference in Conflict Zones
By Nathan Douthit Large-scale destruction of health services is a feature of modern warfare which today tends to be intrastate (civil war) rather than interstate. Whereas at the time of the World War I...
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Making a Difference Through Advocacy
By Nathan Douthit At the annual meeting for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health this year, the theme was Health Disparities: A Time for Action. The keynote address was delivered by Stephen...
View ArticleStudent Elective Competition 2018/19: A call for entries
We are now launching the 2018/19 competition for students and interns. Write up your experiences as a global health case report and you could be the winner of a position as a Global Health Associate...
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