title: [Reflecting on nursing contributions to global health].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Discuss possibilities of nursing contribution for global health approaching knowledge bases and the potential for global health, reflecting upon nursing education and their skills and abilities to perform into global health.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nurses contribute to global health in areas related to the health system policies, social determinants of health/disease, global issues related to culture, epidemics, communicable and non-communicable diseases, epidemiology, humanitarian actions and emergencies. Universities play an important role for this contribution.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses are professionals who actively contribute to global health, whether in political, social, economic or cultural situations, and universities play an important role for the training of these professionals.
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário Católico Salesiano Auxilium, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Vivian Aline
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Preto
authors.affiliation: Hospital de Reabilitação Sarah Kubitschek, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brasil.
authors.forename: Jéssica Magalhães Felipe
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Batista
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Carla Aparecida Arena
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ventura
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário Católico Salesiano Auxilium, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Isabel Amélia Costa
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Mendes
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role