HLTC24H3 Lecture Notes - Chauvinism, Maternal Death, Advantageous
8 Apr 2012
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International health today is marked by the history of past activities; starting circa 1500 leading european powers ventured overseas to explore, settle, convert, colonize, profit from, civilize and exploit peoples and land less powerful societies. **chapter focuses on the realist rather than the idealist approach to international health work; explore how to move from traditional to more cooperative form of international health. Yet learning is multi-directional and engagement in international health can be transformative. Presumes that those in powerful countries have a monopoly on the necessary knowledge, technical expertise and resources to improve the problems of people living in underdeveloped countries. Presumes that powerful have monopoly on knowledge. Or development economists smugly reproducing advice and actions of the past. These efforts often ignore the social and political context and the existing health and welfare infrastructure or hold them in disregard and set up parallel health systems that do not build local capacity.
