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
