Full Description
Global health has seen an influx of investment and interest over the last two decades, fueling significant gains in areas such as infectious disease and maternal and child health. As new threats continue to emerge -- pandemics, health impacts of climate change, the growing burdens of an aging population -- it's clear that global health will require fresh thinking and continued investment in order to build on its early successes.
Readings in Global Health is a collection of authoritative review articles on topics in global health excerpted from the New England Journal of Medicine. Authored and edited by leading voices in the field, this volume serves as an ideal introduction to both the state of global health and its road from here. With extensive illustration, referencing, and supplemental commentaries by editors David J. Hunter and Harvey V. Fineberg, it's an essential guide to the principles and practice of global health and works as a textbook for students taking global health courses as well.
Contents
1. A Global View of Health-An Unfolding Series
Harvey V. Fineberg and David J. Hunter
Part I: Global Disease Patterns and Predictions
2. Measuring the Global Burden of Disease
Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez
3. Globalization, Climate Change, and Human Health
Anthony J. McMichael
Part II: Infectious Diseases
4. The Perpetual Challenge of Infectious Diseases
Anthony S. Fauci and David M. Morens
5. Response to the AIDS Pandemic-A Global Health Model
Peter Piot and Thomas C. Quinn
6. Pandemic Preparedness and Response-Lessons from the H1N1 Influenza of 2009
Harvey V. Fineberg
7. Ebola Virus Disease: Past and Present
Rupa Kanapathipillai, Armand G Sprecher, and Lindsey R Baden
8. Designing Tomorrow's Vaccines
Gary J. Nabel
9. Disease Eradication
Donald R. Hopkins
Part III: Non-Communicable Diseases
10. Behavioral and Dietary Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases
Majid Ezzati and Elio Riboli
11. Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco
Prabhat Jha and Richard Peto
12. Noncommunicable Diseases
David J. Hunter and K. Srinath Reddy
13. Mental Health and the Global Agenda
Anne E. Becker and Arthur Kleinman
14. Injuries
Robyn Norton and Olive Kobusingye
Part IV: Health System Responses
15. Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health-So Near and Yet So Far
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Robert E. Black
16. Health Care Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Anne Mills
17. Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health
Jennifer Leaning and Debarati Guha-Sapir
Part V: Global Institutional Responses
18. Governance Challenges in Global Health
Julio Frenk and Suerie Moon
19. Global Health Law
Lawrence O. Gostin and Devi Sridhar
20. Global Supply of Health Professionals
Nigel Crisp and Lincoln Chen
21. Convergence to Common Purpose in Global Health
David J. Hunter and Harvey V. Fineberg
Index
