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Global Health

Global health is the field of study, research, and practice that addresses health issues transcending national borders and emphasizes equitable improvement of health for populations worldwide. It combines epidemiology, public health, and health-systems analysis with attention to the political, economic, and environm…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 25× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2997-1969 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Global health is the field of study, research, and practice that addresses health issues transcending national borders and emphasizes equitable improvement of health for populations worldwide. It combines epidemiology, public health, and health-systems analysis with attention to the political, economic, and environmental forces that shape health across high-, middle-, and low-income settings. Central concerns include the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, examined alongside geopolitical context and questions surrounding gain-of-function research, and the cross-border dynamics of pandemics such as COVID-19, including their interaction with environmental exposures and vulnerable older populations. Work in this area also evaluates disease-incidence trends, vaccine uptake among healthcare workers, and the structural challenges facing health systems in underdeveloped and developing countries. Climate change and its impact on population health, bioethical frameworks for global biological consciousness, and quality-improvement strategies in resource-constrained healthcare facilities further reflect the field's breadth. Behavioral and social determinants, including substance use among adolescents, connect individual risk to broader patterns of disparity. By integrating international collaboration, comparative analysis, and policy, global health seeks to reduce inequities in access and outcomes, strengthen health systems, and coordinate responses to threats whose causes and consequences are shared across countries and regions.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Mental Health in The Context of The COVID 19 Pandemic

Yadav RavinderCorresponding author
Medical Social Welfare Officer Department of Medical Record Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, India
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3367
2020

Health Systems of Underdeveloped and Developing Countries

Mango LucioCorresponding author
Head for Higher Education in Healthcare, University of International Studies (UNINT) – Rome, Italy
Exact topic International Journal of Global Health Cited by 3 doi:10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-20-3489

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 25 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Global Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Health Statistics (ISSN 2997-1969).

Journal editorial board
Mairead Bermingham · United Kingdom Naghmeh Mirhosseini · Canada Nunzia Nappo · Italy

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