Degrees of engagement: Family physicians and global health.

The injustice of health disparities and the suffering and death from preventable and treatable illnesses in much of the world prompts many physicians to question not whether to intervene but rather how, with whom, and to what degree.[1][1] Ethically engaging in an inequitable world ([Figure 1][2])

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