Bookedited by Robin Haring, Ilona Kickbusch, Detlev Ganten, Matshidiso Moeti.
Summary: Global health is a rapidly emerging discipline with a transformative potential for public policy and international development. Emphasizing transnational health issues, global health aims to improve health and achieve health equity for all people worldwide. Its multidisciplinary scope includes contributions from many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, including clinical medicine, public health, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, economics, public policy, law and ethics. This large reference will offer up-to-date information and expertise across all aspects of global health and will help readers achieve a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the driving forces, dynamics, and models in healthcare, as well as the biological, clinical, socioeconomic and environmental drivers impacting global health disorders and challenges. As a fully comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference that can be updated periodically, over time, as the data and drivers change, Global Health will be an important, dynamic resource to provide context for global health clinical care, organizational and state decision-making, and overall public policy on many levels. Physicians (both research and practice-oriented), trainees, medical students, health economists, environmental scientists, social scientists from a range of disciplines working in the field of health and illness (both practitioners and at the university / graduate program level), public policy and law students and professionals, and allied health trainees and practitioners will find this work of great value. .
Contents:
Global Health
Definition, Principles & Drivers
Globalization & Global Health
Impact, Trends & Consequences
Urbanisation & Cities as Drivers of Global Health
Aging & Global Health
Cultural Diversity & Global Health
Digital Transformation & Global Health
Study Designs in Global Health Research
Epidemiological Methods & Measures in Global Health Research
Quantitative Methods in Global Health Research
Qualitative Methods in Global Health Research
Mixed-methods in Global Health Research
Accountability & Aid Effectiveness Research in Global Health
Global health project design, monitoring & evaluation
Causal inference in global health epidemiology
Evidence synthesis in global health epidemiology
Disease surveillance & monitoring: Epidemic diagnosis & control
Dynamics of disease occurence & transmission
Epidemiological transition & changing pattern of disease
Demographic approaches to population dynamics
Population mortality & global causes of death
pattern & trends
Global Migration & Population Health
Population health dynamics & fertility: pattern, predictors & projections
Global burden of CVD
prevalence, pattern & trends
Global burden of COPD
prevalence, pattern & trends
Global burden of Cancer
prevalence, pattern & trends
Global burden of Alzheimer & other dementias
Global burden of Diabetes Mellitus
Global burden of Road injury.