Global health as it is known today is rooted in the health challenges that arose with the global expansion of European imperialism: colonial medicine. Nearly three hundred years before Western nations turned inward to scrutinize health reform during the Industrial Revolution, health regulation was firmly on the agendas of European conquerors. Medical practitioners often traveled as members of colonial conquests, many of whom attempted to control epidemics for Spanish conquistadors.
In order to understand the concerted evolution of global medicine, it becomes essential to ask why citizens - and their governments - became concerned with the spread of disease across borders in the first place. Of course, public sanitation efforts and theories of disease causation can be traced to the world's earliest civilizations - from Rome to Mesoamerica to the Middle East.
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