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A Catholic Contribution to Global Public Health
Global public health has several persistent challenges that require partnerships to properly solve. A global institution with the resources and influence of the Catholic Church, even though its health-related efforts have traditionally focused on the provision of direct medical care, could be a more...
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Ubiquity Press
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7059419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32166067 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2762 |
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description | Global public health has several persistent challenges that require partnerships to properly solve. A global institution with the resources and influence of the Catholic Church, even though its health-related efforts have traditionally focused on the provision of direct medical care, could be a more valuable partner for global public health than it traditionally has been. The challenges are not technical in nature, but are conceptual ones that prevent global public health from achieving its full potential. For example, the intellectual resources of the Church could help cultivate a sense of vocation among public health professionals, similar to the awareness of vocation enjoyed in healing professions. Additionally, the social teaching of the Church, particularly the preferential option for the poor, could help shift the enduring issue that global resources often flow where they are least needed. Further, dignity and solidarity could provide the conceptual grounding needed to invest more energy in capacity building in low-resource settings. Such efforts also require conversion within the Church itself, suggesting that deeper partnership could benefit both the Church and global public health. |
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spelling | pubmed-70594192020-03-12 A Catholic Contribution to Global Public Health Rozier, Michael Ann Glob Health Viewpoint Global public health has several persistent challenges that require partnerships to properly solve. A global institution with the resources and influence of the Catholic Church, even though its health-related efforts have traditionally focused on the provision of direct medical care, could be a more valuable partner for global public health than it traditionally has been. The challenges are not technical in nature, but are conceptual ones that prevent global public health from achieving its full potential. For example, the intellectual resources of the Church could help cultivate a sense of vocation among public health professionals, similar to the awareness of vocation enjoyed in healing professions. Additionally, the social teaching of the Church, particularly the preferential option for the poor, could help shift the enduring issue that global resources often flow where they are least needed. Further, dignity and solidarity could provide the conceptual grounding needed to invest more energy in capacity building in low-resource settings. Such efforts also require conversion within the Church itself, suggesting that deeper partnership could benefit both the Church and global public health. Ubiquity Press 2020-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7059419/ /pubmed/32166067 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2762 Text en Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
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title | A Catholic Contribution to Global Public Health |
title_full | A Catholic Contribution to Global Public Health |
title_fullStr | A Catholic Contribution to Global Public Health |
title_full_unstemmed | A Catholic Contribution to Global Public Health |
title_short | A Catholic Contribution to Global Public Health |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7059419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32166067 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2762 |
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