The MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize: broadening our horizons.

摘要

Global health is, by definition, an area of great breadth and depth. There is enormous diversity in health systems and health outcomes, with life expectancy at birth varying from 82-84 years in Australia and Japan to less than 55 years in more than 20 African countries. Despite this diversity and difference, communicable diseases such as HIV and severe acute respiratory syndrome, and our more recent understanding of the global industrial vectors of non-communicable diseases such as the tobacco industry, show that our health is becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent.