Progress of military global health engagement:concept, practice, and trends

Abstract

Although the concept of global health was proposed and raised worldwide concerns only recently, military global health engagement has been practiced with a very long history. In the 21th century, all the nations give increasing attention to military global health engagement. In China, militaries participate in many global health practices, and their roles are becoming increasingly important. This review summarizes the concept of global health and its evolvement, the practices of international military global health engagement, and the development as well as the challenges of military global health engagement in China. Military global health engagement in China still needs comprehensive efforts to develop the planning, researches, research platform, education, and partnership to enhance the "soft power" in military diplomacy.

Keywords

• global health
• military