Population Medicine and Sustainable Development: European Opportunities in collaborating with China to improving global health

The overarching objective of this Staff Exchanges (SE) program is to form an international network of organizations from Spain, Germany, Slovenia, and China, working on a joint research program in the fields of health, development economics, and anthropology. Population medicine is a new medical paradigm that aims to improve the aggregate and long-term population health by mobilizing available resources through various care responsibilities. The principles of population medicine are aimed at forcing doctors and physicians to shift from a reactive model that treats ill individuals to a proactive model that focuses on the population's health. This SE Program focuses on how economics, as a collection of theories, models, techniques, and values, might enable practitioners in providing better and more efficient treatment to the population they serve.