Eyes wide open: an essay on developing an engaged awareness in global medicine and public health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a growing understanding of the role social determinants such as poverty, gender discrimination, racial prejudice, and economic inequality play on health and illness. While these determinants and effects may be challenging to identify in parts of high-income countries, they are patently obvious in many other areas of the world. How we react to these determinants and effects depends on what historical, cultural, ideological, and psychological characteristics we bring to our encounters with inequity, as well as how our feelings and thoughts inform our values and actions.

Discussion

To address these issues, we share a series of questions we have asked ourselves-United States' citizens with experience living and working in Central America-in relation to our en

SUBMITTER: Ventres WB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422227 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature