Journal:
:international journal of health policy and management
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claire leppold
department of research, minamisoma municipal general hospital, fukushima,
japan akihiko ozaki
department of surgery, minamisoma municipal general hospital,
fukushima, japan yuki shimada
department of neurosurgery, minamisoma municipal
general hospital, fukushima, japan tomohiro morita
department of internal medicine,
soma
central hospital, fukushima, japan tetsuya tanimoto
department of internal medicine, jōban
hospital, tokiwa foundation, fukushima, japan
what counts as global health? there has been limited discourse to date on the ways in which country-level contexts may shape positioning in global health agendas. by reviewing japan’s response to the refugee crisis, we demonstrate a clash between rhetoric and action on global responsibility, and suggest that cultural and historical factors may be related to the ways of perceiving and acting upo...