With increasing acceptance of International Health as a discipline, and with an article in the Lancet explaining the difference between International Health, Global Health, Public Health and other terms, it is understandable that a journal named International Health has been launched. This is a collaborative venture between the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and The Lancet Global Health Network. Volume 1 Issue 1 is for September 2009. The scope of the articles in the first issue is massive: all the way from reviews of all non-communicable disease to the Lancet editor Richard Horton calling for a rational politics of global health hoping that “the outcome will be the highest attainable standard of health for all if not the perfectibility of humankind”. The review of rickettsioses is more what I would think of when considering traditional tropical medicine before terms like “global health” were coined. There is also original research, including a cross-sectional study of maternity in low-income areas of Mumbai.
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