McCracken / Phillips Global Health

An Introduction to Current and Future Trends
2. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-43121-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 466 Seiten

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. In this new edition, the authors have maintained the successful structure and organisation of the book to examine and explain recent health changes and consider likely future patterns. New topics covered include:

- emerging and re-emerging infectious disease threats (e.g. MERS-CoV, Avian influenza A(H7N9), Ebola and polio)

- increasing awareness of and interest in antibiotic/microbial resistance and superbugs

- terrorism, global conflict and health

- the end of the Millennium Development Goals period (1990-2015) and the place of health in the post-2015 UN sustainable development agenda

- global environmental change and health prospects

- the use of information technology in enhancing (and in some cases diminishing) global health (e.g. eHealth and mHealth; social media).

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCracken, Kevin

Phillips, David R.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?

Über Autor(innen)

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.