Global Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges, and Global Action
Global Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges, and Global Action
Editor/Author
Armstrong-Mensah, Elizabeth A.
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Wiley
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ISBN: 978-1-119-11021-7
Category: Health & Medicine - Health
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48
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Global Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges and Global Action provides a thorough introduction to a wide range of important global health issues and explores the resources and skills needed for this rapidly expanding area.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Essentials of global health
- Summary of key points
- Evolution and concept of global health
- The Concept of global health
- Key global health concepts
- Defining features of global health
- Global versus international health
- Significance of global health in today's world
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 2 Globalization, infectious diseases, and global health
- Summary of key points
- Epidemiological transition
- The second epidemiological transition: Age of Receding Pandemics
- The concept of globalization
- Evolution and features of globalization
- Disease and human history
- Emerging and re‐emerging infectious diseases
- World trade and global health
- Effects of globalization on health
- Health challenges due to globalization
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 3 Noncommunicable diseases
- Summary of key points
- The Concept of noncommunicable diseases
- Types of noncommunicable diseases
- Noncommunicable disease risk factors
- Challenges of noncommunicable disease prevention and control
- Global strategies and action
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 4 Global burden of disease and measurement
- Summary of key points
- Health and disease
- Social determinants of health
- Key health status indicators
- The concept of global burden of disease
- Indicators for measuring global burden of disease
- Rationale for measuring global burden of disease
- Patterns of global disease distribution
- Global burden of disease measurement challenges
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 5 Culture, behavior, and global health
- Summary of key points
- The concept of culture
- Significance of culture to health
- Perceptions of health, illness, and disease
- Cultural practices that affect health
- Theories of health behavior
- Cultural competency skills for global health
- Health behavior challenges
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 6 Water, sanitation, and global health
- Summary of key points
- Key water and sanitation terms
- Water and sanitation‐related diseases
- Women, water, and sanitation
- Effects of unsafe water and poor sanitation on global health
- Investing in safe water supply and sanitation
- Global water and sanitation coverage and progress
- Global water and sanitation challenges
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 7 Global hunger, nutrition, and food security
- Summary of key points
- Global hunger and malnutrition
- Key concepts related to hunger and malnutrition
- Micronutrient deficiencies
- Global burden of hunger and malnutrition
- Food security
- Measuring hunger and nutritional status
- Global challenges of hunger, malnutrition, and food security
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 8 Global health and human rights
- Summary of key points
- The Concept of human rights
- International and regional human rights instruments
- The right to health
- The right to health and special populations
- Global and national obligations towards the right to health
- Challenges to the right to health
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 9 Natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies
- Summary of key points
- The Concept of disaster
- Natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies
- Global instances of natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies
- Global impact of natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies
- Managing natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies
- Natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies management challenges
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 10 Gender and global sexual and reproductive health
- Summary of key points
- Gender versus sex
- Gender roles and gender power relations
- Concepts of sexual and reproductive health
- Reproductive ill health and global disease burden
- Unsafe abortion
- Gender‐based violence
- Family planning
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Sexual and reproductive health challenges
- Global strategies and action for improving sexual and reproductive health
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 11 Health systems and global health
- Summary of key points
- The concept of a health system
- Health system models, goals, and building blocks
- Health system goals and functions
- Health system resources and management
- Health systems in low‐ middle‐ and high‐income countries
- Health system strengthening
- Health system challenges
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 12 Financing global health
- Summary of key points
- The concept of health financing
- Functions of health financing
- Methods of health financing
- Health expenditure in low‐, middle‐, and high‐income countries
- Global health financing challenges
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 13 Ethics in global health research, design, and practice
- Summary of key points
- The concept of research ethics
- Historical background of ethics in health research
- Global health research
- Ethical issues in global health research in resource‐poor settings
- Controversies and challenges in global health research
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 14 Health‐related millennium development goals and global health
- Summary of key points
- Health‐related Millennium Development Goals targets and indicators
- Health‐related MDG progress
- Critique of the health‐related MDGs
- Health‐related MDG challenges
- Global action and strategies
- Post MDGs
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 15 Global health partnerships and governance
- Summary of key points
- The Concept of global health partnerships
- Purpose and benefits of global health partnerships
- Characteristics of good global health partnerships
- Focus of global health partnerships
- Actors and funders of global health partnerships
- Successes of global health partnerships
- The concept of global health governance
- Challenges of global health partnerships and governance
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 16 Evaluating global health projects
- Summary of key points
- The concept of evaluation
- Key evaluation concepts
- Rationale for evaluating global health projects
- Program evaluation framework
- Program evaluation standards
- Types of evaluation
- Logic model and evaluation plan design
- Real‐world evaluation challenges
- Global action and strategies
- Discussion points
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING