Foundations of global health : an interdisciplinary reader / edited by Peter J. Brown, Emory University, Svea Closser, Middlebury College.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Peter J., editor.

Closser, Svea, 1978- editor.

Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World health--Textbooks.

World health.

Public health--Textbooks.

Public health.

Global Health.

Medical Subjects:

Global Health.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xiv, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 INTRODUCING GLOBAL HEALTH

1. What Is Global Health? / Svea Closser

Box: What's Your Major?

Box: Portraits of Health in Five Countries / Thorkild Tylleskar

SECTION 1 Milestones in Global Health

Conceptual Tools

2. The Broad Street Pump / Steven Johnson

3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 / John Barry

4. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox / William Foege

5. A Pinch, a Fist, a Cup of Water: Oral Rehydration Therapy in Bangladesh / Phillip J. Hilts

6. "Science Will Always Win in the End": The Epidemiologist Who Proved that Smoking Causes Cancer / Anna Wagstaff

7. Declaration of Alma-Ata / World Health Organization

8. AIDS in 2006

-Moving toward One World, One Hope? / Paul Farmer

Web Resources and Cases

SECTION 2 Epidemiology and the Basic Methods of Global Health

9. Inside the Outbreaks / Mark Pendergrast

10. Epidemiology and Surveillance / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

SECTION 3 Metrics and the Burden of Disease

11. Using Evidence about "Best Buys" to Advance Global Health / Lori Ashford

12. The Long Defeat / Tracy Kidder

13. Counting Is Complicated / Adeola Oni-Orisan

pt. 2 ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

SECTION 4 Water

14. Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health / Sandy Cairncross

15. Water, Worry, and Mental Health / Alexandra Brewis

16. What Went Wrong in Flint / Anna Maria Barry-Jester

SECTION 5 Air

17. Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries / Rachel Albalak

18. Tobacco Industry Interference: A Global Brief / World Health Organization

19. The Health Consequences of Global Climate Change / Stasia Widerynski

SECTION 6 Food

20. Clinical Medicine or Public Health? The History of Mortality Decline / Thomas McKeown

21. The Nature of Child Malnutrition and Its Long-Term Implications / Reynaldo Martorell

22. Statement to the Security Council on Missions to Yemen, South Sudan, and Kenya and an Update on the Oslo Conference on Nigeria and the Lake Chad Regions / Stephen O'Brien

23. Hunger in the AIDS Economy of Central Mozambique / Ippolytos Kalofonos

24. A Nutrition Paradox

-Underweight and Obesity in Developing Countries / Benjamin Caballero

pt. 3 SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

SECTION 7 Health Inequalities and the Social Gradient

25. Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts / Michael Marmot

26. Disease and Dying while Black: How Racism, Not Race, Gets under the Skin / Alan Goodman

SECTION 8 Sex and Reproduction

27. Why Is HIV Prevalence So Severe in Southern Africa? / Helen Epstein

28. Understanding HIV/AIDS in the African Context / Larry Sawers

29. Why Circumcision? / Homa Hoodfar

30. Saving Mothers' Lives in Sri Lanka / Ruth Levine

SECTION 9 Violence

31. The Global Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence against Women / C. H. Watts

32. War and Public Health: An Overview / Victor W. Sidel

33. Beyond Happy Endings / Peter Redfield

34. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine / Salmaan Keshavjee

pt. 4 INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE HEALTH

SECTION 10 A History of Health Institutions and Programs

35. The Four 19th-Century Cultural Roots of International and Global Health: A Model for Understanding Current Policy Debates / Peter J. Brown

36. Coercion and Consent in Smallpox Eradication / Paul Greenough

37. Looking Back in Time from Ebola / Randall Packard

SECTION 11 Health Systems and Aid

38. A Heart for the Work / Claire Wendland

39. Turning the World Upside Down / Nigel Crisp

40. Why We Must Provide Better Support for Pakistan's Female Frontline Health Workers / Rashid Jooma

41. Are NGOs Undermining Health Systems in Mozambique? / James Pfeiffer

42. The Vital Case for Global Health Investments / Ann Kurth

43. Treating Depression Where There Are No Mental Health Professionals / Vikram Patel

44. Beyond Shamanism: The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Global Health Policy / Obijiofor Aginam

SECTION 12 Health Communication

45. Riding High on Taru Fever: Entertainment-Education Broadcasts, Ground Mobilization and Service Delivery in Rural India / Arvind Singhal

46. Managing Rumors and Misinformation in West Africa and Ebola: Limitations of Correcting Misinformation / Annie Wilkinson

SECTION 13 Ethics, Projects and Human Rights: The Future of Global Health

47. The Right to Health / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and World Health Organization

48. Stop Trying to Save the World: Big Ideas Are Destroying International Development / Michael Hobbs

49. Global Health: Your Life, Your Life Decisions, Your Moral Obligations / Peter Brown

Boxes / Abhay Shukla

Web Resources and Cases.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780190647940

0190647949

OCLC:

1005057360

Publisher Number:

99985135328