Textbook of international health global health in a dynamic world

• Main Authors: Birn, Anne-Emanuelle 1964- (Author), Pillay, Yogan (Author), Holtz, Timothy H. (Author), Basch, Paul F. 1933-2001 (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Oxford University Press 2009
• Edition: THIRD EDITION
• Subjects: Global Health; International Cooperation; Quality of Health Care
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This classic text, formerly known as the "Basch" textbook, now completely revised in an updated new edition, brings together information that students and professionals working in the wide variety of disciplines concerned with international health will find in no other single source. It sy...

Table of Contents:

• The historical origins of modern international health
• International health agencies, activities, and other actors
• The political economy of health and development
• What do we know, what do we need to know, and why it matters : data on health
• Epidemiologic profiles of global health and disease
• Societal determinants of health and social inequalities in health
• Health under crisis
• Globalization, trade, work, and health
• Health and the environment
• Health economics and the economics of health
• Understanding and organizing health care systems
• Toward healthy societies : from ideas to action
• Doing international health.