Global Health

This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct and indirect impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context.

This volume sets out to tell a story of possible futures for the health of peoples across the world. Questions the volume addresses include:-What health outcomes might we expect given current patterns of human development?-What opportunities exist for intervention and the achievement of alternate health futures?-How might improved health futures affect broader economic, social, and political prospects of countries, regions, and the world?

Created with the non-specialist in mind, "Understanding Global Health" explores the current burden of disease in the world, how health is determined, and the problems faced by populations and health care workers around the world.

Aginam explores the relevance of international law in contemporary public health diplomacy. He focuses on the concept of mutual vulnerability to explore the globalization of disease, in what is paradoxically a global village and a divided world.

This report explains how health systems improvements can lead to better health, reduce poverty, and make donor investment in health sustainable.

The book addresses the growing globalism of health from the unique perspective of the economic concept of public goods.

This book describes successes in many countries and looks forward to the major contributions that health economics can bring to bear on emerging policy issues in health and health care.

It identifies fifty key concepts used across the discipline of public health in order to give the reader a broad perspective of the core topics relevant to training and practice.