title: Global health capacity and workforce development: turning the world upside down.
abstract: This article explores global health and the way in which the whole world is increasingly interdependent in terms of health. High-income countries need to help redress the balance of power and resources around the world, for self interest and self preservation if for no other reason. These countries have a particular responsibility to help support the training of more health workers and to strengthen health systems in low-income and middle-income countries. In this interdependent world, high-income countries can learn a great deal from poorer ones as well as vice versa, and concepts of mutuality and codevelopment will become increasingly important.
authors.affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. crisp@parliament.uk
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Crisp
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004501:Education, Medical; D004517:Education, Professional; D014943:Global Health; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006304:Health Status; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D011203:Poverty; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012577:Schools, Medical; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors