Textbook of Global Health
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Product details:
- Edition number 4
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 July 2018
- ISBN 9780190916527
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages712 pages
- Size 251x178x38 mm
- Weight 1270 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND IN PAPERBACK
"This book compels us to better understand the contexts in which health problems emerge and the forces that underlie and propel them." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
H1N1. Diabetes. Ebola. Zika. Each of these health problems is rooted in a confluence of social, political, economic, and biomedical factors that together inform our understanding of global health. The imperative for those who study global health is to understand these factors individually and, especially, synergistically.
Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition of Oxford's Textbook of Global Health offers a critical examination of the array of societal factors that shape health within and across countries, including how health inequities create consequences that must be addressed by public health, international aid, and social and economic policymaking.
Long description:
THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND IN PAPERBACK
"This book compels us to better understand the contexts in which health problems emerge and the forces that underlie and propel them." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
H1N1. Diabetes. Ebola. Zika. Each of these health problems is rooted in a confluence of social, political, economic, and biomedical factors that together inform our understanding of global health. The imperative for those who study global health is to understand these factors individually and, especially, synergistically.
Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition of Oxford's Textbook of Global Health offers a critical examination of the array of societal factors that shape health within and across countries, including how health inequities create consequences that must be addressed by public health, international aid, and social and economic policymaking.
The text equips students, activists, and health professionals with the building blocks for a contextualized understanding of global health, including essential threads that are combined in no other work:
· historical dynamics of the field
· the political economy of health and development
· analysis of the current global health structure, including its actors, agencies, and activities
· societal determinants of health, from global trade and investment treaties to social policies to living and working conditions
· the role of health data and measuring health inequities
· major causes of global illness and death, including under crises, from a political economy of health vantage point that goes beyond communicable vs. non-communicable diseases to incorporate contexts of social and economic deprivation, work, and globalization
· the role of trade/investment and financial liberalization, precarious work, and environmental degradation and contamination
· principles of health systems and the politics of health financing
· community, national, and transnational social justice approaches to building healthy societies and practicing global health ethically and equitably
Through this approach the Textbook of Global Health encourages the reader -- be it student, professional, or advocate -- to embrace a wider view of the global health paradigm, one that draws from political economy considerations at community, national, and transnational levels. It is essential and current reading for anyone working in or around global health.
[P]rovides an important focus on the political economy of health and highlights the importance of a social-justice approach, incorporating the social and political economies of LMICs, to building healthy societies.
Table of Contents:
Praise for the Textbook of Global Health
Preface: Why Global Health?
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
1. The Historical Origins of Modern International Health
2. Between International and Global Health: Contextualizing the Present
3. Political Economy of Health and Development
4. Global Health Actors and Activities
5. Data on Health: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know, and Why Does it Matter
6. Epidemiologic Profiles of Global Health and Disease
7. Health Equity and the Societal Determinants of Health
8. Health under Crises and the Limits to Humanitarianism
9. Globalization, Trade, Work, and Health
10. Health and the Environment
11. Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems
12. Health Economics and the Politics of Health Financing
13. Building Healthy Societies: From Ideas to Action
14. Social Justice Approaches to Global Health
Index
