BookKorydon H. Smith, Pavani Kalluri Ram, editors.
Summary: This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them. Once the purview of public health, medicine, and nursing, global health is now an interdisciplinary endeavor that relies on expertise from anthropology to urban planning, economics to political science, geography to engineering. Scholars and practitioners in the health sciences are seeking knowledge from a wider array of fields while, simultaneously, students across majors have a growing interest in humanitarian issues and are pursuing knowledge and skills for impacting well-being across geographic and disciplinary borders. Using a highly practical approach and illustrative case studies, each chapter of this edited volume frames a particular problem and illustrates how interdisciplinary problem-solving can address the greatest challenges in global health today. In doing so, each chapter spurs critical and creative thinking about emergent and future problems. Topics explored among the chapters include: Transforming health and well-being for refugees and their communities Governing to deliver safe and affordable water The global crisis of antimicrobial resistance Low-tech, high-impact interventions to prevent neonatal mortality Communicating taboo health subjects Alternative housing delivery for slum upgrades Transforming Global Health: Interdisciplinary Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies is a vital and timely compendium for any reader invested in improving global health equity. It will find an audience with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and program implementers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the fields of global health, public health, and the health sciences.
Contents:
Intro
Foreword
Informing, Inspiring, and Mobilizing New Talent to Address Global Health Inequity
Preface
Introduction: The Audacity to Achieve Global Health Equity
The "DNA" of This Book
Additional Context
Many Challenges Ahead
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
About the Editors
Chapter 1: Governing to Deliver Safe and Affordable Water: Perspectives from Urban Planning and Public Policy
Introduction
Governing the Water Commons: A Framework for Analysis
Conflicts in Water Decisions
Governance Arrangements/Typologies Polycentric Governance in Water Delivery
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Chapter 2: Measuring the Lifetime Environment in LMICs: Perspectives from Epidemiology, Environmental Health, and Anthropology
So Many Exposures!
The Exposome Explained
Measuring the Exposome
Do We Need Exposome Science in LMICs?
The Challenge of Putting It All Together
The Challenge of Translation
The Challenge of Research Conduct and Data Analysis
The Challenge of Ethics
The Role of Students in Measuring Lifetime Environments
References Chapter 3: Transforming Well-Being for Refugees and Their Communities: Perspectives from Medicine, Nursing, Education, and Social Work
Introduction
Forcibly Displaced Populations
History and Policies of Migration and Displacement
Refugee Resettlement in the U.S.
Forced Migration, Health, and Resilience
Making Places: The Journey from Displacement to Emplacement
Displaced: "In" But Not "Of"
Emplaced: Leaving Our Imprints
A Case Study: Buffalo, NY, the City of Good Neighbors
Conclusion
References Chapter 4: Interactive Systems in Nutrition: Perspectives from Epidemiology, Veterinary Science, Nutrition, Anthropology, and Community Health
Introduction
Malnutrition and Stunting: A Global Problem
Current Approaches and Challenges of Nutritional Interventions
Body: Health and Well-Being
Food: Food System, Decision-Making, and Food Security
Land: Land Use, Resource Allocation, and Agricultural Food Production
Multilevel Systems: Household, Community, National/Global
Livestock Ownership: Considering Land, Food, and Body
What Is Livestock? Challenges Facing Livestock Production and Cultivation
Land and Resources: A Network of Decisions Surrounding Livestock
Climate Change and Livestock
Livestock and the Body: Health and Well-Being
Water Insecurity: Considering Land, Food, and the Body
Global Importance of Water
Water and Land: Disparity and Conflict
Water and Food: Decisions at the Household Level
Water and the Body: Health and Well-Being
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Integrating Traditional and Modern Medical Practices: Perspectives from the History of Science and Medicine
Introduction