Muennig / Su Introducing Global Health

Practice, Policy, and Solutions
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-23399-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, E-Book

Introducing Global Health: Practice, Policy, andSolutions is a contemporary overview of the major issues inglobal public health. The book explores how population health mightbe maximized with the right blend of health system, education,antipoverty, infectious disease, urban development, governance, andincentive-based policies. It covers topics critical forunderstanding the state of the world today, including wars fornatural resources, the missing women phenomenon, and whether globalaid really works. The book's case studies focus on developingeconomies, mixed economies, and new emerging superpowers. Thematicchapters are interwoven with running motifs, such as the healthrisks and benefits associated with different totalitarian,capitalist, and market socialist economies. Moving beyondstatistics, the book represents a major innovation in the teachingof global health by presenting technical concepts including theincidence and prevalence of disease within the context of moreaccessible topics such as global poverty. This helps studentscontextualize otherwise challenging but critical concepts, such asthe burden of infectious disease.
By encouraging reflection, focusing on what works, and usingactivities and exercises, Introducing Global Health bothteaches fundamentals of global public health and cultivates apolicy perspective that is appealing and compelling for today'sstudents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muennig, Peter

Su, Celina

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Muennig, MD, MPH, is associate professor of healthpolicy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health atColumbia University, New York. He cofounded the Burmese RefugeePro- ject, has consulted for various governments, and has won anational teaching award in public health.
Celina Su, PhD, is associate professor of politicalscience at the City University of New York. She has written twobooks on education policy and politics, cofounded the BurmeseRefugee Project, and she is a steering committee member of New YorkCity's participatory budgeting. Her honors include the BerlinPrize.