Efnisyfirlit

• Title
• Copyright
• Figures and Tables
  • Figures
  • Tables
• The Authors
• Introduction: An Overview of Global Health
  • Why a Public Health Perspective?
  • The Global Health Landscape
  • About the Book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Key Terms
• PART ONE: The Basics of Global Health
  • CHAPTER 1: A Very Brief History of Global Health Policy
    • Health and Public Policy through the Twentieth Century
    • The Age of Global Health Policy
    • The Fall of Global Governance
    • The Millennium Development Goals
    • An Alternative History
    • Love and Health in Modern Times
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 2: Case Studies in Development and Health
    • The Puzzle of “Good” Development for Health
    • The Next Superpowers? Taking a Closer Look at Middle-Income Countries
    • Growth-Mediated Models
    • Support-Led Models
    • Toward a Happy Medium?
    • China's Explosive Growth
    • Kerala's Quality of Life
    • Chile Aims for a Balancing Act
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
• PART TWO: Global Health and the Art of Policy Making
  • CHAPTER 3: The Global Burden of Disease
    • Who Dies Where?
    • Counting Global Deaths (with an Eye toward Saving Lives)
    • Dead Children Make for Bad Statistics
    • The Health Effects of Evil Genies
    • Quantifying the Global Burden of Disease
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 4: Aid
    • Different Types of Aid
    • The Aid Controversy
    • Models of Global Aid for Public Health
    • Argument: Aid Is Harmful
    • Argument: Aid Is Poorly Managed
    • Argument: Aid Is Misused
    • Argument: “Aid” Further Consolidates Power for the Powerful
    • Argument: All Is Well, Just Send More
    • Argument: We Are Making Progress, but the Hurdles Are High
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 5: Health Systems
    • Health Care Delivery Systems
    • Health Care Payments
    • Health Care Markets
    • Health Care Delivery Systems in High-Income Countries
    • Health Care Delivery Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    • Pharmaceutical Spending
    • What Makes Us Healthy?
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 6: Social Policy and Global Health
    • How Policies Are Made
    • Political Economy and Health
    • Lessons for Health-Optimizing Social Policies
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 7: A Closer Look at Three Political Economies: China, Kerala, and Chile
    • China: Sustainable State of Development?
    • Kerala: Experiments with Radical Decentralization
    • Chile: A Precarious Third Way
    • Summary
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 8: Global Governance and Health
    • The World Health Organization
    • The World Trade Organization
    • An Evolution of Global Governance
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
• PART THREE: Key Challenges in Global Health
  • CHAPTER 9: Poverty
    • Income and Health across Nations
    • Definitions of Poverty
    • Why Do We Worry about Poverty in Public Health?
    • Poverty in Less-Developed Nations
    • Poverty and Health among Wealthy Nations
    • The Complexities of Poverty
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 10: The Physical Environment and Disease
    • Infectious Disease and Development
    • Malaria and Other Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
    • Air Pollution and Health
    • Outer-Ring Development and Health
    • Climate Change and Health
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 11: The Social Environment and Disease
    • The Ultimate Trifecta: Race, Class, and Gender
    • The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
    • Tuberculosis
    • Social Networks and Chronic Disease
    • Individual Risk Behaviors, Urban Planning, and Health
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 12: Globalization, Internal Conflict, and the Resource Curse
    • Globalization and Health
    • Spillover Effects of Poor Global Governance
    • Civil Conflict as a Public Health Problem
    • Resource Curses and Civil Conflict
    • Natural Resources and Civil War
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • CHAPTER 13: Frontiers in Global Health
    • The Many Levels of Health
    • Tidings, Good or Bad, Come in Clusters
    • Working with the System
    • A Rise in Targeted Social Policy Interventions
    • Innovations in Administration and Governance
    • Lessons on Social Policy Interventions
    • Summary
    • Key Terms
    • Discussion Questions
  • Index
• End User License Agreement

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