Kevin Mccracken, David R Phillips

Global Health

An Introduction to Current and Future Trends

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Global Health, second edition, continues to provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the constantly evolving global health landscape. New or extended topics in this edition include; emerging and re-emerging infectious disease threats; terrorism, global conflict and health; the UN Sustainable Development Goals; Universal Health Coverage; information technology; palliative and end-of-life care; substance abuse; and, ethical issues in global health. Using clear and original explanations of complex issues, this text makes extensive use of boxed case studies and international examples, with thought-provoking discussion questions posed for readers at the end of each chapter. Global Health is essential reading for students of global health, public health and development studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1016g
• ISBN-13: 9781138912748
• ISBN-10: 1138912743
• Artikelnr.: 48212599

Autorenporträt

Kevin McCracken is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia and an Honorary Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. David R. Phillips is a Chair Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Concepts, Data, Measurement, Explanations 1. Global Health: An
Introduction 2. Measuring Population Health and Disease 3. The Determinants
of Population Health Part 2: Global Health and Health Transition - Past and
Present - Places and Groups 4. Global Health: Where We Are and How We Got
There 5. Global Health: Subnational Inequalities 6. Age and Lifecourse
Transitions in Health 7. Major Contemporary Challenges in Global Health
Part 3: Global Health Futures: Future Transitions and Health Planning 8.
Health Systems, Finance and Planning 9. Global Environmental Change and
Health 10. Geopolitics, Human Security and Health 11. Global Health
Futures?

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Part 1: Concepts, Data, Measurement, Explanations 1. Global Health: An Introduction 2. Measuring Population Health and Disease 3. The Determinants of Population Health Part 2: Global Health and Health Transition - Past and Present - Places and Groups 4. Global Health: Where We Are and How We Got There 5. Global Health: Subnational Inequalities 6. Age and Lifecourse Transitions in Health 7. Major Contemporary Challenges in Global Health Part 3: Global Health Futures: Future Transitions and Health Planning 8. Health Systems, Finance and Planning 9. Global Environmental Change and Health 10. Geopolitics, Human Security and Health 11. Global Health Futures?