Junior response to the global health editorial

摘要

As trainees and new GPs, we warmly welcome BJGP's new International Advisory Board and plans to increase its emphasis on the international perspective of primary care.1 We also read with interest the editorial highlighting the role that primary health care can play in the field of global health.2 This comes at a moment when the need for undergraduate and postgraduate education in global health is increasingly recognised, such as by the recent Lancet Commission on the education of health professionals for the 21st century3 and BMJ's editorial on training programmes in global health.4 The extent of the political capital given to this issue was highlighted at the House of Lords on 20 December 2010,5 when a debate led by Lord Crisp challenged the government on how they will ensure that the subject of global health is included in the education of all health professionals.