Full Description
Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbeing.
Divided into two parts, the book introduces key concepts in relation to global public health, such as ethics, economics, health disparities, and globalisation. The second part comprises chapters exploring specific challenges, such as designing and implementing public health interventions, the role of social enterprise, climate change, sustainability and health, oral health, violence, palliative care, mental health, loneliness, nutrition, and embracing diverse genders. These chapters build on, and apply, the theoretical frameworks laid out in part one, linking the substantive content to broader contexts.
Taking an inclusive, global approach, this is a key text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of global health, public health, and medical sociology.
Contents
Part I. 1.Introduction. 2.Public Health, Theory, and Application to Policy and Practice. 3.Globalisation and Global Public Health. 4.Economics and Global Health. 5.Global Inequalities: The Impact on Health. 6.Ethics and Global Public Health. 7.Engaging Critical Pedagogy Within Global Health Teaching and Learning. Part II. 8.Issues in Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Maternal Health Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. 9.Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Global Public Health Practice. 10.Planetary Health and the Anthropocene. 11.The Climate Emergency and Zero Carbon Healthcare. 12.Violence and Global Public Health. 13.Every Child and Adolescent, Everywhere: Contemporary Issues in Child and Adolescent Health. 14.Armed Conflict and the Mental Health of Children. 15.Agentic Dying: The Global Imperative to Acknowledge Socio-Anthropological Aspects in Palliative Care Services for All. 16.Nomadic Peoples and Access to Healthcare. 17.Living in a Foreign Land: Refugee and Migrant Health and Related Health Inequalities. 18.Unravelling Dietary Acculturation in the 21st Century. 19.Transgender, Genderqueer and Non-Binary Identities: Social and Structural Inequalities in Public Health. 20.The Social Construction of Loneliness and Global Public Health. 21.Global Oral Health and Inequalities. 22.Health Protection and Global Approach to Neglected Communicable Diseases. 23.Conclusion.
