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

• 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