Foundations of Global Health
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Published on 23. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-19-064794-0 (ISBN)
Description
Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of highly readable articles with a significant amount of original text by the editors. Supplementary instructive materials include "conceptual tools" summaries, background information on authors and context, provocative section and article introductions, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading and internet exploration. Like the field of global health itself, the readings focus on the public health challenges faced by low- and middle-income countries as well as the persistent problems of health disparities in high-income countries.
Reviews / Votes
I am absolutely thrilled with the coverage of important topics in this book. It has brought together a fantastic assortment of the 'Greatest Hits' in global health with valuable new contributions in the original content. The interdisciplinary and holistic focus is ideal for introducing the very broad field of global health to students who may come from a range of perspectives. * Bria Dunham, Boston University* I appreciate the approach of this book. The authors have worked hard to include a broad array of readings; they demonstrate that much of what exists in the literature does not work for undergraduates. The readings are engaging and on point. * Ann Magennis, Colorado State University
* Foundations of Global Health is both a text and a reader designed for introducing undergraduates to the basic concepts and questions in global health while presenting them with dynamic, engaging readings from the field. * M. Cameron Hay, Miami University
* Foundations of Global Health provides a sound interdisciplinary introduction to the key issues and concepts in the field of global health. Through essays contextualized by editors' commentary, students are encouraged to fully engage in the field. As an introduction to global health, this book provides a variety of instructive materials to help students as they navigate their way through their global health courses. * Laura E. Nathan, University of California, Berkeley
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
112
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-064794-0 (9780190647940)
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Persons
Peter J. Brown is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University.
Svea Closser is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College.
Svea Closser is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College.
Content
- Each section includes Conceptual Tools and Web Resources and Cases.
- Preface
- PART ONE: INTRODUCING GLOBAL HEALTH
- 1. What is Global Health?, Peter Brown and Svea Closser
- Box: What's Your Major?
- Box: Four Portraits in Global Health, Ann Lindstrand, Staffan Bergstrom, Hans Rosling, Biritta Rubenson, Bo Stenson, and Thorkild Tylleskar
- Section 1.1: Milestones in Global Health
- 2. The Broad Street Pump, Stephen Johnson
- 3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918, John Barry
- 4. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox, William Foege
- 5. A Pinch, a Fist, a Cup of Water: ORT in Bangladesh, Richard Hilts
- 6. "Science Will Always Win in the End": The Epidemiologist Who Proved that Smoking Causes Cancer, Anna Wagstaff and Richard Doll
- 7. Declaration of Alma Ata, World Health Organization
- 8. AIDS in 2006 - Moving toward One World, One Hope?, Jim Kim and Paul Farmer
- Section 1.2: Epidemiology and the Basic methods of Global Health
- 9. Inside the Outbreaks, Mark Pendergrast
- 10. Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Section 1.3 Metrics and the Burden of Disease
- 11. Using Evidence About "Best Buys" to Advance Global Health, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Lori Ashford
- 12. The Long Defeat, Tracy Kidder
- 13. Counting is Complicated, Adeola Oni-Orisan
- PART TWO: ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
- Section 2.1: Water
- 14. Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health, Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross
- 15 Water, Worry, and Mental Health, Amber Wutich
- 16. What Went Wrong in Flint, The Natural Hazards Center
- Section 2.2: Air
- 17. Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries, Nigel Bruce, Rogelio Perez-Padilla, and Rachel Albalak
- 18. Tobacco Industry Interference: A Global Brief, World Health Organization
- 19. Climate Change and Global Health, George Luber
- Section 2.3: Food
- 20. Clinical Medicine or Public Health? The History of Mortality Decline, Thomas McKeown
- 21. The nature of child malnutrition and its long-term implications, Rey Martorell
- 22. Statement to the Security Council on Missions to Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Kenya, Steven O'Brien
- 23. Hunger in the AIDS Economy of Central Mozambique, Ippolytos Kalofonos
- 24. A Nutrition Paradox--Underweight and Obesity in Developing Countries, Benjamin Caballero
- PART THREE: SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
- Section 3.1: Health Inequalities and the Social Gradient
- 25. Social Determinants of Health: the Solid Facts, Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot
- 26. Disease and Dying while Black: How Racism, Not Race, Gets under the Skin, Allan Goodman
- Section 3.2 Sex and Reproduction
- 27. Why is HIV Prevalence So Severe in Southern Africa?, Daniel T. Halperin and Helen Epstein
- 28. Understanding HIV/AIDS in the African Context, Eileen Stillwaggon and Larry Sawer
- 29. Female Genital Cutting: Between Marriage and Marketplace, Homa Hoodfar
- 30. Saving Mothers' Lives in Sri Lanka, Ruth Levine
- Section 3.3 Violence
- 31. The Global Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women, K. M. Devries, J. Y. T. Mak, C. García-Moreno, M. Petzold, J. C. Child, G. Falder, S. Lim, L. J. Bacchus, R. E. Engell, L. Rosenfeld, C. Pallitto, T. Vos, N. Abrahams, and C. H. Watts
- 32. War and Public Health: An Overview, Barry Levy and Victor Sidel
- 33. Beyond Happy Endings, Peter Redfield
- 34. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine, Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee
- PART FOUR: INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE HEALTH
- Section 4.1: A History of Health Institutions and Programs
- 35. The Four 19th Century Cultural Roots of International and Global Health: A model for understanding current policy debates, Peter J. Brown
- 36. Coercion and Consent in Smallpox Eradication, Paul Greenough
- 37. Looking Back in Time from Ebola, Randall Packard
- Section 4.2: Health Systems and Foreign Aid
- 38. A Heart for the Work, Claire Wendland
- 39. Turning the World Upside Down, Nigel Crisp
- 40. Why We Must Provide Better Support for Pakistan's Female Frontline Health Workers, Svea Closser and Rashid Jooma
- 41. Are NGOs undermining health systems in Mozambique?, James Pfeiffer
- 42. The Vital Case for Global Health Investments, Sten Vermund and Ann Kurth
- 43. Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals, Vikram Patel
- 44. Beyond Shamanism: The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Global Health Policy, Obijiofor Aginam
- Section 4.3: Health Communication
- 45. Riding High on Taru Fever: Entertainment-Education Broadcasts, Ground Mobilization, and Service Delivery in Rural India, Arvind Singhal
- 46. Managing Rumours and Misinformation in West Africa, Amzath Fassassi; and Ebola: Limitations of Correcting Misinformation, Clare Chandler, James Fairhead, Ann Kelly, Melissa Leach, Frederick Martineau, Esther Mokuwa, Melissa Parker, Paul Richards, Annie Wilkinson, for the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
- Section 4.4: Ethics, Projects and Human Rights - The Future of Global Health
- 47. The Right to Health, World Health Organization and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights
- 48. Stop Trying to Save the World: Big ideas are destroying international development, Michael Hobbs
- 49. Global Health: Your Life, Your Life Decisions, Your Moral Obligations, Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser
- Boxes by Pam Berenbaum, Nils Daulaire, Abhay Shukla, Emily Bensen, and Bill Foege; shorter pieces by several other authors
- Key Terms
- Preface
- PART ONE: INTRODUCING GLOBAL HEALTH
- 1. What is Global Health?, Peter Brown and Svea Closser
- Box: What's Your Major?
- Box: Four Portraits in Global Health, Ann Lindstrand, Staffan Bergstrom, Hans Rosling, Biritta Rubenson, Bo Stenson, and Thorkild Tylleskar
- Section 1.1: Milestones in Global Health
- 2. The Broad Street Pump, Stephen Johnson
- 3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918, John Barry
- 4. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox, William Foege
- 5. A Pinch, a Fist, a Cup of Water: ORT in Bangladesh, Richard Hilts
- 6. "Science Will Always Win in the End": The Epidemiologist Who Proved that Smoking Causes Cancer, Anna Wagstaff and Richard Doll
- 7. Declaration of Alma Ata, World Health Organization
- 8. AIDS in 2006 - Moving toward One World, One Hope?, Jim Kim and Paul Farmer
- Section 1.2: Epidemiology and the Basic methods of Global Health
- 9. Inside the Outbreaks, Mark Pendergrast
- 10. Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Section 1.3 Metrics and the Burden of Disease
- 11. Using Evidence About "Best Buys" to Advance Global Health, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Lori Ashford
- 12. The Long Defeat, Tracy Kidder
- 13. Counting is Complicated, Adeola Oni-Orisan
- PART TWO: ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
- Section 2.1: Water
- 14. Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health, Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross
- 15 Water, Worry, and Mental Health, Amber Wutich
- 16. What Went Wrong in Flint, The Natural Hazards Center
- Section 2.2: Air
- 17. Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries, Nigel Bruce, Rogelio Perez-Padilla, and Rachel Albalak
- 18. Tobacco Industry Interference: A Global Brief, World Health Organization
- 19. Climate Change and Global Health, George Luber
- Section 2.3: Food
- 20. Clinical Medicine or Public Health? The History of Mortality Decline, Thomas McKeown
- 21. The nature of child malnutrition and its long-term implications, Rey Martorell
- 22. Statement to the Security Council on Missions to Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Kenya, Steven O'Brien
- 23. Hunger in the AIDS Economy of Central Mozambique, Ippolytos Kalofonos
- 24. A Nutrition Paradox--Underweight and Obesity in Developing Countries, Benjamin Caballero
- PART THREE: SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
- Section 3.1: Health Inequalities and the Social Gradient
- 25. Social Determinants of Health: the Solid Facts, Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot
- 26. Disease and Dying while Black: How Racism, Not Race, Gets under the Skin, Allan Goodman
- Section 3.2 Sex and Reproduction
- 27. Why is HIV Prevalence So Severe in Southern Africa?, Daniel T. Halperin and Helen Epstein
- 28. Understanding HIV/AIDS in the African Context, Eileen Stillwaggon and Larry Sawer
- 29. Female Genital Cutting: Between Marriage and Marketplace, Homa Hoodfar
- 30. Saving Mothers' Lives in Sri Lanka, Ruth Levine
- Section 3.3 Violence
- 31. The Global Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women, K. M. Devries, J. Y. T. Mak, C. García-Moreno, M. Petzold, J. C. Child, G. Falder, S. Lim, L. J. Bacchus, R. E. Engell, L. Rosenfeld, C. Pallitto, T. Vos, N. Abrahams, and C. H. Watts
- 32. War and Public Health: An Overview, Barry Levy and Victor Sidel
- 33. Beyond Happy Endings, Peter Redfield
- 34. Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine, Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee
- PART FOUR: INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE HEALTH
- Section 4.1: A History of Health Institutions and Programs
- 35. The Four 19th Century Cultural Roots of International and Global Health: A model for understanding current policy debates, Peter J. Brown
- 36. Coercion and Consent in Smallpox Eradication, Paul Greenough
- 37. Looking Back in Time from Ebola, Randall Packard
- Section 4.2: Health Systems and Foreign Aid
- 38. A Heart for the Work, Claire Wendland
- 39. Turning the World Upside Down, Nigel Crisp
- 40. Why We Must Provide Better Support for Pakistan's Female Frontline Health Workers, Svea Closser and Rashid Jooma
- 41. Are NGOs undermining health systems in Mozambique?, James Pfeiffer
- 42. The Vital Case for Global Health Investments, Sten Vermund and Ann Kurth
- 43. Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals, Vikram Patel
- 44. Beyond Shamanism: The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Global Health Policy, Obijiofor Aginam
- Section 4.3: Health Communication
- 45. Riding High on Taru Fever: Entertainment-Education Broadcasts, Ground Mobilization, and Service Delivery in Rural India, Arvind Singhal
- 46. Managing Rumours and Misinformation in West Africa, Amzath Fassassi; and Ebola: Limitations of Correcting Misinformation, Clare Chandler, James Fairhead, Ann Kelly, Melissa Leach, Frederick Martineau, Esther Mokuwa, Melissa Parker, Paul Richards, Annie Wilkinson, for the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
- Section 4.4: Ethics, Projects and Human Rights - The Future of Global Health
- 47. The Right to Health, World Health Organization and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights
- 48. Stop Trying to Save the World: Big ideas are destroying international development, Michael Hobbs
- 49. Global Health: Your Life, Your Life Decisions, Your Moral Obligations, Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser
- Boxes by Pam Berenbaum, Nils Daulaire, Abhay Shukla, Emily Bensen, and Bill Foege; shorter pieces by several other authors
- Key Terms