Oxford University Press | Textbook Of Global Health, 4th Edition (2017 EN)

Author: Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, Timothy H. Holtz
Full Title: Textbook Of Global Health, 4th Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 4 edition (February 23, 2017)
Year: 2017
ISBN-13: 9780199392285 (978-0-19-939228-5), 978019939229 (978-0-19-939229-2), 9780199392308 (978-0-19-939230-8)
ISBN-10: 0199392285, 0199392293, 0199392307
Pages: 712
Language: English
Genre: Public Health
File type: PDF (True, but nonnative Cover)
Quality: 9/10
Price: £55.00


H1N1. Diabetes. Ebola. Zika. Each of these health problems is rooted in a confluence of social, political, economic, and biomedical factors that together inform our understanding of global health. The imperative for those who study global health is to understand these factors individually and, especially, synergistically.

Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition of Oxford's Textbook of Global Health offers a critical examination of the array of societal factors that shape health within and across countries, including how health inequities create consequences that must be addressed by public health, international aid, and social and economic policymaking.

The text equips students, activists, and health professionals with the building blocks for a contextualized understanding of global health, including essential threads that are combined in no other work:

DT historical dynamics of the field
DT the political economy of health and development
DT analysis of the current global health structure, including its actors, agencies, and activities
DT societal determinants of health, from global trade and investment treaties to social policies to living and working conditions
DT the role of health data and measuring health inequities
DT major causes of global illness and death, including under crises, from a political economy of health vantage point that goes beyond communicable vs. non-communicable diseases to incorporate contexts of social and economic deprivation, work, and globalization
DT the role of trade/investment and financial liberalization, precarious work, and environmental degradation and contamination
DT principles of health systems and the politics of health financing
DT community, national, and transnational social justice approaches to building healthy societies and practicing global health ethically and equitably.

Through this approach the Textbook of Global Health encourages the reader — be it student, professional, or advocate — to embrace a wider view of the global health paradigm, one that draws from political economy considerations at community, national, and transnational levels. It is essential and current reading for anyone working in or around global health.

— A complete revision and reconceptualization of the popular Textbook of International Health, which has sold more than 25,000 copies across three editions
— Offers a broad introduction to global health integrated with critical analytic approaches that can be found in no other single source
— Synthesizes history, epidemiology, environmental studies, economics, and policy and financing to provide a comprehensive overview of the factors that influence health patterns within countries and across the globe
— The first and only global health textbook to employ a political economy of health analytic framework
— An accessible, authoritative, and affordable introduction to the topic suitable for advanced undergraduates, public health graduate students, medical students, practitioners, and those working in health diplomacy and development writ large

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