Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, Timothy H. Holtz

Textbook of Global Health (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED "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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199392308
• Artikelnr.: 47734725

Autorenporträt

Anne-Emanuelle Birn is Professor of Critical Development Studies (UTSC) and Social and Behavioural Health Sciences (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) at the University of Toronto, where she served as Canada Research Chair in International Health from 2003 to 2013. She is widely published in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Africa; her books include: Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico (2006); and Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home (2013). Professor Birn's honors include Fulbright and Rotary fellowships, election to the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, and numerous endowed lectureships across the Americas and Asia. In 2014 she was recognized among the top 100 Women Leaders in Global Health. Yogan Pillay is Deputy Director General for HIV, Tuberculosis, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Programmes in the National Department of Health, South Africa. He has 20 years' experience in the planning and implementation of health system reforms and has published widely on the topics of HIV, tuberculosis, and health systems. Timothy H. Holtz is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. His field experience has focused on infectious disease epidemiology and disease control, and he has worked with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a consultant to the World Health Organization. From 2002-2010 Dr. Holtz worked in southern Africa, Eastern Europe, and South America on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis control and tuberculosis/HIV program capacity building. He is an internationally recognized expert on the emerging threat of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance and was part of the team of scientists that discovered extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB). He has also directed an HIV prevention clinical trial research program in Thailand, and an HIV and TB technical assistance program in India. He is a founding member of Doctors for Global Health, a health and social justice nongovernmental organization with projects in the U.S., Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface: Why Global Health?
* Acknowledgements
* 1. The Historical Origins of Modern International Health
* Antecedents of Modern International Health: Black Death, Colonial
Conquest, and the Atlantic Slave Trade
* Health, the Tropics, and the Imperial System
* Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Emergence of Modern Public
Health
* The Making of International Health
* International Health Institution-Building: The LNHO and the Inter-War
Years
* Conclusion
* 2. Between International and Global Health: Contextualizing the
Present
* The Post-World War II International (Health) Order
* The Rise of the WHO and "Third World" Development
* Straddling International and Global Health
* Conclusion
* 3. Political Economy of Health and Development
* Political Economy of Health (and Development)
* Political Economy of Development (and Health)
* Recent Development and Global Health Approaches
* Conclusion: What Does a Political Economy Approach Bring to the
Global Health Arena?
* 4. Global Health Actors and Activities
* Snapshot of Global Health Actors, Agencies, and Programs
* Political Economy of Global Health Actors and Activities
* Conclusion
* 5. Data on Health: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know, and Why
Does it Matter
* Why Health Data Matter
* Types of Health Data
* Conclusion
* 6. Epidemiologic Profiles of Global Health and Disease
* Leading Causes of Morbidity and Mortality Across Societies and the
Life Cycle
* Epidemiology and the Political Economy of Disease
* Conclusion
* 7. Health Equity and the Societal Determinants of Health
* Social Determinants/Determinants of Health: What Makes the Underlying
Determinants of Health Societal as Opposed to Individual
* Operationalizing Political Economy of Health through SDOH
* Understanding Health Inequities
* From Political, Economic, Social, and Historical Context to
Population Health and Health Inequities: Pathways and Possibilities
* Societal Governance and Social Policies
* From Living Conditions to Embodied Influences
* Addressing Health Inequities and the Social Determinants of Health
* 8. Health under Crises and the Limits to Humanitarianism
* "Ecological Disasters" and Their Implications
* Famine and Food Aid
* War, Militarism, and Public Health
* Refugees and IDPs: Numbers, Types, Places
* Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
* Political Economy of Disasters and CHEs: Where Does Humanitarianism
Fit In?
* Conclusion
* 9. Globalization, Trade, Work, and Health
* Globalization and Its (Dis)contents
* Health Effects of Neo-liberal Globalization
* Work and Occupational Health and Safety Across the World
* Signs of Hope for the Future: Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization
* Conclusion
* 10. Health and the Environment
* Framing Environmental Health Problems: the Motors and Drivers
* Health Problems and Environmental Problems and Vice Versa
* Climate Change
* What Is to Be Done? Multiple Layers of Change
* Conclusion
* 11. Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems
* Principles of Health Systems
* Health Systems Archetypes
* Primary Health Care, Its Renewal, and the Turn to Universal Coverage
* Health System Reform
* Building Blocks of a Health System
* Conclusion
* 12. Health Economics and the Politics of Health Financing
* Health Economics: A Snapshot
* Health Care Financing Redux
* Cost Analyses in the Health Sector
* Market Approaches to Health in LMICs
* The Role of International Agencies in Health Care Financing
* Contrasting Approaches to Investing for Health
* Conclusion
* 13. Building Healthy Societies: From Ideas to Action
* What Constitutes Success in Global Health
* Vertical Health Programs and Global Health Interventions: Successes
and Limitations
* Health Societies: Case Studies
* Healthy Public Policy: Health Promotion, Healthy Cities, and Emerging
Frameworks
* Conclusion: The Making of Healthy Societies
* 14. Social Justice Approaches to Global Health
* Recapping the Global Health Arena: Dominant Approaches, Ongoing
Challenges, and
* Points of Inspiration
* A Social Justice Approach to Practicing Health: Individuals,
Organizations, and the
* Logic of the World Order
* Conclusion: What Is To Be Done?