Defining and Acting on Global Health: The Case of Japan and the Refugee Crisis
نویسندگان
1 Department of Research, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan
2 Department of Surgery, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan
3 Department of Neurosurgery, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan
4 Department of Internal Medicine, Soma Central Hospital, Fukushima, Japan
5 Department of Internal Medicine, Jōban Hospital, Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, Japan
doi
10.15171/ijhpm.2016.68چکیده
What counts as global health? There has been limited discourse to date on the ways in which country-level contexts may shape positioning in global health agendas. By reviewing Japan’s response to the refugee crisis, we demonstrate a clash between rhetoric and action on global responsibility, and suggest that cultural and historical factors may be related to the ways of perceiving and acting upon global health.
