BookJoia S. Mukherjee.
Summary: 'An Introduction to Global Health Delivery' is a short but immersive introduction to global health's origins, actors, interventions, and challenges. Informed by physician Joia Mukherjee's quarter-century of experience fighting disease and poverty in more than a dozen countries, it delivers a clear-eyed overview of the movement underway to reduce global health disparities and establish sustainable access to care, including details of what has worked so far - and what hasn't.
Contents:
The roots of global health inequity
Reversing the tide : lessons from the movement for AIDS treatment access
The millenium development goals and sustainable development goals
Global health and the global burden of disease
Social forces and their impact on health
Giving care, delivering value
Human resources for health
Community health workers
Evolution in drug access
Monitoring, evaluation, disease surveillance, and quality improvement
Universal health coverage : ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages
Health financing
Governance
Building the right to health movement : activism, advocacy, and social change.