Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Biomedical Engineering for Global Health (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Can technology and innovation transform world health? Connecting undergraduate students with global problems, Rebecca Richards-Kortum examines the interplay between biomedical technology design and the medical, regulatory, economic, social and ethical issues surrounding global health. Driven by case studies, including cancer screening, imaging technologies, implantable devices and vaccines, students learn how the complexities and variation across the globe affect the design of devices and therapies. A wealth of learning features, including classroom activities, project assignments, homework problems and weblinks within the book and online, provide a full teaching package. For visionary general science and biomedical engineering courses, this book will inspire students to engage in solving global issues that face us all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511654336
• Artikelnr.: 38211940

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Richards-Kortum is the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University, Houston and the Director of the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health. Her research has been instrumental in improving early detection of cancers and other diseases, especially in low-resources settings. She is currently working with colleagues and undergraduate students to develop and deploy a suite of technologies necessary to reduce neonatal death in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Richards-Kortum has 40 patents, and her teaching programs, research and collaborations are supported by grants from NCI, NIH and NSF, the Gates Foundation, and HHMI. She is a member of the NAS, NEA and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Emerging medical technologies: high stakes science and the need for technology assessment
2. Bioengineering and technology assessment
3. Health and economic data: a global comparison
4. World health and global health challenges
5. Healthcare systems: a global comparison
6. Healthcare costs vs time: trends and drivers
7. The evolution of technology: scientific method, engineering design, and translational research
8. Prevention of infectious disease
9. Ethics of clinical research
10. Technologies for early detection and prevention of cancer
11. Cost-effectiveness of screening for disease
12. Technologies for treatment of heart disease
13. Clinical trial design and sample size calculation
14. Technology diffusion
15. Regulation of health care technologies
16. Future of bioengineering and world health
Index.