title: [Global Health: teaching approaches in Italian and foreign University Faculties of Medicine].
abstract: Global Health is an academic subject which focuses on the importance of social, economic, political, demographic and environmental determinants on health. This narrative review examines undergraduate and postgraduate teaching approaches to Global Health in the main Faculties of Medicine in Europe, America and Asia. Differences were found in contents, methods and general approaches to teaching medical students about Global Health in the faculties examined.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Igiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy. giuseppefuria87@libero.it
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Furia
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carovillano
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Silvestrini
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bruno
authors.forename: Maria Giovanna
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Ficarra
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ricciardi
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D004501:Education, Medical; D005060:Europe; D014943:Global Health / Q000193:education*; D007558:Italy; D009656:North America; D012577:Schools, Medical