A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Packard, Randall M., 1945-

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health & Societies.

Local Subjects:

Health & Societies.

Summary:

A History of Global Health offers a critical historical view of global-health initiatives that have saved millions of lives but have had limited impact on the overall health of people living in large areas of the world, where health-care workers are poorly paid, infrastructure and basic supplies are lacking, and little effort has been made to address the underlying social and economic determinants of health. Designed to be read and taught, the book provides an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Colonial Entanglements 13

1 Colonial Training Grounds 17

2 From Colonial to International Health 32

Part 2 Social Medicine, the Depression, and Rural Hygiene 47

3 The League of Nations Health Organization 51

4 Internationalizing Rural Hygiene and Nutrition 66

Part 3 Changing Postwar Visions of Health and Development 89

5 Planning for a Postwar World: The Legacy of Social Medicine 91

6 A Narrowing Vision: International Health, Technology, and Cold War Politics 105

Part 4 The Era of Eradication 133

7 Uncertain Beginnings 137

8 The Good and the Bad Campaigns 152

Part 5 Controlling The World's Populations 181

9 The Birth of the Population Crisis 187

10 Accelerating International Family-Planning Programs 204

11 Rethinking Family Planning 215

Part 6 The Rise and Fall of Primary Health Care 227

12 Rethinking Health 2.0: The Rise of Primary Health Care 231

13 Challenges to Primary Health Care 249

Part 7 Back to the Future 267

14 AIDS and the Birth of Global Health 273

15 The Global Fund, PFPFAR, and the Transformation of Global Health 289

16 Medicalizing Global Health 305.

ISBN:

9781421420332

1421420332