title: Why US Health Care Should Think Globally.
abstract: Why should health care systems in the United States engage with the world's poorest populations abroad while tremendous inequalities in health status and access are pervasive domestically? Traditionally, three arguments have bolstered global engagement: (1) a moral obligation to ensure opportunities to live, (2) a duty to protect against health threats, and (3) a desire to protect against economic downturns precipitated by health crises. We expand this conversation, arguing that US-based clinicians, organizational stewards, and researchers should engage with and learn from low-resource settings' systems and products that deliver high-quality, cost-effective, inclusive care in order to better respond to domestic inequities. Ultimately, connecting "local" and "global" efforts will benefit both populations and is not a sacrifice of one for the other.
authors.affiliation: Programs associate in the Office of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Health in Agenda 2030 and for Malaria in New York City.
authors.forename: Samuel G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Ruchman
authors.affiliation: Chair of the Department of Health System Design and Global Health at Mount Sinai Health System and director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leader, a Truman National Security Fellow, and term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
authors.forename: Prabhjot
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Program manager for policy at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stapleton
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D057172:Economic Recession; D004630:Emergencies; D014943:Global Health; D000069576:Health Equity; D006282:Health Personnel; D006295:Health Resources; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D007858:Learning; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009042:Motivation; D011203:Poverty; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013850:Thinking; D014481:United States