Global Health: Issues, Challenges, and Global Action

ISBN-13: 9781119110217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str.

Elizabeth A. Armstrong-Mensah

Opis

Global Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges and Global Action provides a thorough introduction to a wide range of important global health issues and explores the resources and skills needed for this rapidly expanding area. Global Health is a growing area that reflects the increasing interconnectedness of health and its determinants. Major socio–economic, environmental and technological changes have produced new challenges, and exacerbated existing health inequalities experienced in both developed and developing countries. This textbook focuses on managing and preventing these challenges, as well as analysing critical links between health, disease, and socio–economic development through a multi–disciplinary approach. Featuring learning objectives and discussion points, Global Health Lecture Notes is an indispensable resource for global health students, faculty and practitioners who are looking to build on their understanding of global health issues.

Global Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges and Global Action provides a thorough introduction to a wide range of important global health issues and explores the resources and skills needed for this rapidly expanding area.

Spis treści

Preface ix

Acknowledgment xi

Chapter 1 Essentials of global health 1

Chapter 2 Globalization, infectious diseases, and global health 13

Chapter 3 Noncommunicable diseases 25

Chapter 4 Global burden of disease, and measurement 47

Chapter 5 Culture, behavior, and global health 59

Chapter 6 Water, sanitation, and global health 69

Chapter 7 Global hunger, nutrition, and food security 85

Chapter 8 Global health and human rights 97

Chapter 9 Natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies 107

Chapter 10 Gender and global sexual and reproductive health 119

Chapter 11 Health systems and global health 131

Chapter 12 Financing global health 139

Chapter 13 Ethics in global health research, design, and practice 153

Chapter 14 Health related millennium development goals and global health 161

Chapter 15 Global heath partnerships and governance 173

Chapter 16 Evaluating global health programs, projects, and interventions 185

Index 000

Blurb

Global Health: Issues, Challenges, and Global Action provides a thorough introduction to a wide range of important global health issues and explores the resources and skills needed for this rapidly expanding area.

Global health reflects the increasing interconnectedness of health and its determinants. Major socio–economic, environmental, and technological changes have produced new challenges, and exacerbated existing health inequalities in both developed and developing countries. This textbook focuses on managing and preventing these challenges, as well as analyzing critical links between health, disease, and socio–economic development through a multidisciplinary approach.

Featuring learning objectives and discussion points, Global Health is an indispensable resource for global health students, faculty and practitioners who are looking to build on their understanding of global health issues.