BookAnne-Emanuelle Birn, MA, ScD, Professor of Critical Development Studies and Global Health,
... Show More University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Yogan Pillay, PhD, Deputy Director-General: HIV/AIDS, TB and Maternal, Child and Women's Health, National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa, Timothy H. Holtz, MD, MPH, FACP, FACPM, Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, United States.
Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher.