Defining and Acting on Global Health: The Case of Japan and the Refugee Crisis.
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.
Department of Research, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
Claire
C
Leppold
Department of Surgery, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
Akihiko
A
Ozaki
Department of Neurosurgery, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
Yuki
Y
Shimada
Department of Internal Medicine, Soma Central Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
Tomohiro
T
Morita
Department of Internal Medicine, Jōban Hospital, Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, Japan.
Tetsuya
T
Tanimoto
D003469:Culture; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D012036:Refugees; D063508:Social Discrimination; D012941:Social Responsibility
Displacement; Global Health; Japan; Refugees
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