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Book SynopsisTrade Review[P]rovides an important focus on the political economy of health and highlights the importance of a social-justice approach, incorporating the social and political economies of LMICs, to building healthy societies. * Lancet Global Health *
I find it stunning that [the] authors ... have produced a text so dense and comprehensive which is yet so eminently readable. The fruits of their labors, clearly resulting from exhaustive time and effort devoted to research and study, provide clear and convincing expert analysis of how we have arrived at the current state of international public health. * Jules R. Duval, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine *
A densely packed treatise on the history, influences, philosophies, and future of global health. Fills an important gap in the training and experience of most clinicians ... [I]t belongs at every institutional program on global health, whether the focus is clinical, policy, or public health * Family Medicine *
A monumental work for health justice. Textbook of Global Health [...] must be made compulsory reading in the training of all public health workers. * Economic & Political Weekly *
Table of ContentsPraise for the Textbook of Global Health Preface: Why Global Health? Acknowledgements About the Authors 1. The Historical Origins of Modern International Health 2. Between International and Global Health: Contextualizing the Present 3. Political Economy of Health and Development 4. Global Health Actors and Activities 5. Data on Health: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know, and Why Does it Matter 6. Epidemiologic Profiles of Global Health and Disease 7. Health Equity and the Societal Determinants of Health 8. Health under Crises and the Limits to Humanitarianism 9. Globalization, Trade, Work, and Health 10. Health and the Environment 11. Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems 12. Health Economics and the Politics of Health Financing 13. Building Healthy Societies: From Ideas to Action 14. Social Justice Approaches to Global Health Index
