Understanding Global Health

Understanding Global Health

Authors: William H. Markle, Melanie A. Fisher and Ray A. Smego

Published: July 2007

eISBN: 9780071594554 0071594558 | ISBN: 9780071487849

Contents

Authors

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

1. Global Health: Past, Present, and Future

2. The Global Burden of Disease

3. Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Surveillance

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 Communication 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

Index