Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic WorldThis classic text, formerly known as the "Basch" textbook, now completely revised in an updated new edition, brings together information that students and professionals working in the wide variety of disciplines concerned with international health will find in no other single source. It synthesizes historical, cultural, environmental, economic and political considerations to provide a comprehensive global overview of the many factors that determine the health of individuals and populations. The major determinants of health status in all regions of the world are discussed, and interventions undertaken at community, national, and international levels are described. The new edition features a renowned new authorship committed to updating and expanding the entire content while retaining the core elements of Basch's excellent text. |
Contents
Introduction | |
The Historical Origins of Modern International Health | |
International Health Agencies Activities and Other Actors | |
The Political Economy of Health and Development | |
What Do We Know What Do We Need to Know and | |
Epidemiologic Profiles of Global Health and Disease | |
Societal Determinants of Health and Social Inequalities | |
Health under Crisis | |
Globalization Trade Work and Health | |
Health and the Environment | |
Health Economics and the Economics of Health | |
Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems | |
From Ideas to Action | |
Doing International Health | |
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Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World Yogan Pillay,Timothy H. Holtz No preview available - 2009 |
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Accessed activities agencies American approach Brazil campaign causes century Chapter child death determinants of health developing countries donor drugs economic effects efforts environment environmental health Epidemiology example factors financing funding Geneva global health groups health care system health insurance Health Organization health policy health problems health services health system HIV/AIDS human rights impact improve income increased industrial inequalities in health infections infrastructure institutions international health interventions Kerala Lancet Latin America levels living longterm malaria maternal Médecins Sans Frontières Medicine million mortality rates neoliberal NGOs nutrition OECD PEPFAR political economy poor population poverty prevention primary health production programs protection public health reform regional Report role sanitation smallpox Social Determinants social inequalities societies subSaharan Africa trade tuberculosis UNICEF United University Press urban vaccine wellbeing World Bank World Health World Health Organization