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Textbook of international health : global health in a dynamic world.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, 1964- author.
- Pillay, Yogan, author.
- Holtz, Timothy H., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (843 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This classic text, formerly known as the ""Basch"" textbook, now completely revised in an updated new edition, brings together information that students and professionals working in the wide variety of disciplines concerned with international health will find in no other single source. It synthesizes historical, cultural, environmental, economic and political considerations to provide a comprehensive global overview of the many factors that determine the health of individuals and populations. The major determinants of health status in all regions of the world are discussed, and interventions u
- Contents:
- The historical origins of modern international health
- International health agencies, activities, and other actors
- The political economy of health and development
- What do we know, what do we need to know, and why it matters : data on health
- Epidemiologic profiles of global health and disease
- Societal determinants of health and social inequalities in health
- Health under crisis
- Globalization, trade, work, and health
- Health and the environment
- Health economics and the economics of health
- Understanding and organizing health care systems
- Toward healthy societies : from ideas to action
- Doing international health.
- Notes:
- Rev. edition of: Textbook of international health / Paul F. Basch. 1999.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773801-X
- 1-282-94673-0
- 9786612946738
- 0-19-971985-3
- OCLC:
- 694791357
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