Global Health - Policy Glossary

The Updated European Global Health Policy Glossary Nearly 100 entries, each a short article introducing main concepts. The glossary is a living resource; each article should be seen as a starting point for discussion. If your views are not represented we invite you to log in and comment. Discussion series 1: The EU´s role in Global Health The European Commission has launched its issue paper on the EU's Role in Global Health for a two month open consultation. The issue paper sets out a series of key challenges and concepts to be addressed during a programme of consultation within EU agencies, with member states and aid recipient countries, and with academic, business and civil society groups. The aim is to gain stakeholder feedback on potential EU added value in the field of global health. The issue asks stakeholders to develop a common understanding of "global health," "European values for global health" and in particular our approach to "inequity and inequality" in health, the impacts of "globalisation on health" the need for "global health research", issue of "health migration" and the need to improve "global health governance". It also introduces issues such as "global public goods for health" and "health security". Our glossary provides definitions and expansion of these topics which may help to further elucidate discussion of the issue paper. You are invited to consider the definitions and explanations provided in the glossary in the light of the open consultation and to add to, comment on and improve these entries.