Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental?
Global health education in medical schools and at premedical undergraduate levels in high-income countries is often limited to short courses aimed at introducing students to the topic. These courses frequently include or focus on trips to low and middle-income countries, so the students can ‘experie...
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| author | Velin, Lotta van Daalen, Kim Guinto, Renzo R * van Wees, Sibylle Herzig Saha, Senjuti |
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| description | Global health education in medical schools and at premedical undergraduate levels in high-income countries is often limited to short courses aimed at introducing students to the topic. These courses frequently include or focus on trips to low and middle-income countries, so the students can ‘experience global health’. There are several problems with this type of learning experience. To begin with, this form of ‘global health tourism’ can be traced back to ‘tropical medicine’—a field plagued by paternalism and asymmetric power dynamics, where the so-called ‘Global North’ dominated the discourse at the expense of the ‘Global South’. Such ‘global health tourism’ supports the frequent misinterpretation of global health as ‘health abroad”. |
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| spelling | sunway-22072023-05-17T23:25:56Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2207/ Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? Velin, Lotta van Daalen, Kim Guinto, Renzo R * van Wees, Sibylle Herzig Saha, Senjuti RA Public aspects of medicine Global health education in medical schools and at premedical undergraduate levels in high-income countries is often limited to short courses aimed at introducing students to the topic. These courses frequently include or focus on trips to low and middle-income countries, so the students can ‘experience global health’. There are several problems with this type of learning experience. To begin with, this form of ‘global health tourism’ can be traced back to ‘tropical medicine’—a field plagued by paternalism and asymmetric power dynamics, where the so-called ‘Global North’ dominated the discourse at the expense of the ‘Global South’. Such ‘global health tourism’ supports the frequent misinterpretation of global health as ‘health abroad”. BMJ Publishing Group 2022 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2207/1/Global%20health%20educational%20trips.pdf Velin, Lotta and van Daalen, Kim and Guinto, Renzo R * and van Wees, Sibylle Herzig and Saha, Senjuti (2022) Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? BMJ Global Health, 7. ISSN 2059-7908 https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/4/e008497 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008497 |
| spellingShingle | RA Public aspects of medicine Velin, Lotta van Daalen, Kim Guinto, Renzo R * van Wees, Sibylle Herzig Saha, Senjuti Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? |
| title | Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? |
| title_full | Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? |
| title_fullStr | Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? |
| title_short | Global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? |
| title_sort | global health educational trips: ethical, equitable, environmental? |
| topic | RA Public aspects of medicine |
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