Turning the World Upside Down - the search for global health in the 21st Century

Richer countries import many health workers from poorer countries, whilst at the same time exporting their ideas and ideologies about health. It is an unfair exchange. What would it be like, Nigel Crisp asks, if it were the other way round - and poorer countries imported health workers from richer ones and exported their ideas and experiences about health?

Turning the World Upside Down explores what richer countries can learn from poorer ones and suggests that, instead of talking of international development - where the richer help the poorer - we should think in terms of co-development, each learning from the other. By bringing together insights from all parts of the world, the book sets out a new vision for global health, based on our interdependence, our desire for independence and on our rights and accountabilities as citizens of the world.

The text is richly illustrated with examples from the author's own extensive experience which ranges from running England's National Health Service, the largest health organisation in the world, to working in some of the poorest countries of the world. It will be of interest to the general reader who wants to understand better what is happening in health as well as to health professionals and students.