Abstract
BackgroundGlobal health education (GHE) in Italy has spread since the first decade of 21st century. The presence of global health (GH) courses in Italy was monitored from 2007 to 2013. In 2019, a new survey was proposed to assess the availability of educational opportunities in Italian medical schools.MethodsAn online survey was carried out using a questionnaire administered to a network of interested individuals with different roles in the academic world: students, professors, and members of the Italian Network for Global Health Education. The features of courses were analysed through a score.ResultsA total of 61 responses were received from affiliates of 33 out of the 44 medical schools in Italy. The national mean of GH courses for each faculty was 1.2, reflecting an increase from 2007. The courses increased nationwide, resulting in a dispersed GHE presence in northern, central and southern Italy. One of the most critical points was related to the nature of “elective” courses, which were not mandatory in the curricula. Enrollees tended to be students genuinely interested in GH issues. Some community and service-learning experiences, referred to as GH gyms, were also detected at national and international levels.ConclusionsGHE has spreading in Italy in line with the vision of the Italian Network for Global Health Education. Although progress has been made to disperse GH courses around the country, more academic commitment is needed to include GH in the mandatory curricula of medical schools and other health faculties.
Highlights
Global health education (GHE) in Italy has spread since the first decade of 21st century
The survey was directed to members of Italy 2Italian Network for Global Health Education (INGHE), to representatives of medical students that are actively involved in global health and to representatives of academics who are part of the Conference
No program or no argument related with the INGHE definition 0 Score 2
Summary
Global health education (GHE) in Italy has spread since the first decade of 21st century. In the last two decades Global Health Education (GHE) spread in in Europe and around the world, as an increasing number of scientific articles have shown [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Surveys on global health educational opportunities conducted in several countries offer insights into international developments in GHE early in the 21st century. In 2007, Rowson and colleagues carried out a survey of medical schools across the world in an effort to analyse the teaching of global health. Found an increase in the teaching of subjects such as globalization and health, as well as international comparison of health systems. Their findings indicated that global health teaching was moving away from the previous focus on tropical medicine and towards issues of more global relevance [15]
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