Understanding Global Health
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The rapidly evolving world of global health and medicine -- in the palm of your hand
"The book's 17 multi-authored chapters cover contemporary global public health remarkably well....Overall, it is a superb introductory text for preclinical and public health novices in global health across a wide spectrum of health careers."--Family Medicine Journal
"This is a welcome addition to the expanding roster of books on global health. It is well written and provides appropriate background information required to initiate any study program in global health. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review Service
Understanding Global Health is the groundbreaking, go-to primer that puts global health and its many challenges into sharp focus like no other text. Written with the nonspecialist in mind, this powerful resource expertly reviews all the core topics that you must know in order to thrive in this decentralized new global health environment. It's all here: unique, authoritative coverage of public health concepts, plus insights into infectious diseases and clinical medicine-everything you need to truly comprehend how global medicine is dramatically affecting today's practice of medicine-and to prepare for your role in it.
Table of contents
1. GLOBAL HEALTH – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
2. THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE
3. EPIDEMIOLOGY, BIOSTATISTICS AND SURVEILANCE
4. THE HEALTH OF WOMEN/MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
5. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
6. NUTRITION
7. PRIMARY CARE IN GLOBAL HEALTH
8. TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV/AIDS
9. WAR, CATASTROPHES, DISPLACED PERSONS, REFUGEES AND TERRORISM
10. INJURY AND GLOBAL HEALTH
11. AGING POPULATIONS AND CHRONIC ILLNESS
12. EMERGING DISEASES AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
13. GLOBAL HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, SOCIAL MARKETING AND EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
14. ECONOMICS AND GLOBAL HEALTH
15. HEALTH SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION IN
LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES
16. GLOBAL HEALTH ETHICS
17. EDUCATION AND CAREERS IN GLOBAL HEALTH
Biographical note
William H. Markle, MD
Department of Family Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
Melanie A. Fisher, MD, MSc
Department of Internal Medicine
R.C. Byrd Health Science Center
West Virginia Unversity School of Medicine
Morgantown, WV
Ray A. Smego, Jr., MD
Department of Internal Medicine
R.C. Byrd Health Science Center
West Virginia Unversity School of Medicine
Morgantown, WV
