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Global Health
Issues, Challenges, and Global ActionLecture Notes 1. Aufl.
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37,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wiley-Blackwell |
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| Veröffentl.: | 14.02.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781119110231 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 224 |
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<p><i>Global Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges and Global Action </i>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Featuring learning objectives and discussion points, <i>Global Health Lecture Notes</i> is an indispensable resource for global health students, faculty and practitioners who are looking to build on their understanding of global health issues.</p>
<p>Preface ix</p> <p>Acknowledgments xi</p> <p>1 Essentials of global health 1</p> <p>2 Globalization, infectious diseases, and global health 13</p> <p>3 Noncommunicable diseases 25</p> <p>4 Global burden of disease and measurement 47</p> <p>5 Culture, behavior, and global health 59</p> <p>6 Water, sanitation, and global health 69</p> <p>7 Global hunger, nutrition, and food security 85</p> <p>8 Global health and human rights 97</p> <p>9 Natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies 107</p> <p>10 Gender and global sexual and reproductive health 119</p> <p>11 Health systems and global health 131</p> <p>12 Financing global health 139</p> <p>13 Ethics in global health research, design, and practice 153</p> <p>14 Health‐related Millennium Development Goals and global health 161</p> <p>15 Global health partnerships and governance 173</p> <p>16 Evaluating global health projects 185</p> <p>Index 197</p>
<b>Elizabeth A. Armstrong-Mensah</b>, PhD, Adjunct/Affiliate Assistant Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine and Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
<p>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.</p> <p>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. <p>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.
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