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Global health 101 / Richard Skolnik.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skolnik, Richard L.
- Series:
- Essential public health
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World health.
- Public health--Developing countries.
- Public health.
- Developing countries.
- Public health--International cooperation.
- Global Health.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Public Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Global Health.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Public Health.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 434 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2012]
- Summary:
- This text for an introductory undergraduate course emphasizes the relationship between health and development. Written to be of interest to non-majors as well as majors in health sciences, the text comes with a web site offering links to videos, journal articles, policy briefs, and lists of work and study opportunities abroad, plus study tools and an interactive glossary. After a section on basic principles, the text addresses themes such as ethical and human rights concerns, health system organization, and the roles of public, private, and NGO sectors. A section on the burden of disease provides separate chapters on environmental health, nutrition, women's health, children's health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and injuries. The book's final section demonstrates how different actors work together to improve global health in the face of natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies. This second edition contains a new chapter on career paths, with 18 profiles of real-life global health workers around the world. There is expanded material on health disparities, tropical diseases, financing global health, and drug resistance. Learning features include objectives, vignettes, case studies, and study questions. Skolnik lectures in global health at George Washington University. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- The principles and goals of global health
- Health determinants, measurements, and trends
- Health, education, poverty, and the economy
- Ethical and human rights concerns in global health
- An introduction to health systems
- Culture and health
- The environment and health
- Nutrition and global health
- Women's health
- Child health
- Communicable diseases
- Non-communicable diseases
- Unintentional injuries
- Natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies
- Working together to improve global health
- Science, technology, and global health
- Working in global health
- Profiles of global health actors.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Essentials of global health. c2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0763797510
- 9780763797515
- OCLC:
- 711828860
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