Introduction to Global Health

Introduction to Global Health is a comprehensive look at today’s most  critical global health concerns and the actions that people around the  world are taking to solve public health problems and to promote health  and wellbeing. The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Global Health  maintains the clarity and ease of use of the prior edition, while  featuring a greater emphasis on the specific interventions that are  being implemented to promote longer, healthier lives worldwide and  prevent disease, disability, and early death in countries of all income  levels. Every chapter balances material about pandemics, climate change,  and other emerging threats to global public health with evidence of how  global health interventions are enabling progress toward achieving  health equity. Key Features: • Chapters on globalization and health  security, the socioeconomic and environmental contributors to population  health, ethics and human rights, health systems financing, and global  health agencies and organizations closely align with the student  learning objectives recommended by the Consortium of Universities for  Global Health. • Updated science, policy, epidemiology, and data  visualizations are featured in the chapters on infectious diseases,  reproductive health, nutrition, noncommunicable diseases, mental health  promotion, injury prevention, child and adolescent health, and healthy  aging. • Expanded coverage of history, values, and functions of global  health, plus new content about COVID-19, prevention and implementation  science, culture and health, ecosystem and planetary health,  interprofessionalism, and other trending themes have been added. •  Chapters and sections are organized to ease navigation for eBook  readers. • More than 350 tables, figures, and photographs enliven the  content. • The glossary provides definitions for more than 900 key  terms. • A robust set of instructor’s materials provide discussion  prompts for each section of the text, active learning exercises for each  chapter, author-created PowerPoint slides, quiz and test banks, and  sample syllabi.