Textbook of Global Health
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy H. Holtz
Abstract
Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition of Oxford’s Textbook of Global Health equips students, advocates, and health professionals with building blocks for a critical understanding of global health. It explores societal determinants of health and health inequities within and between countries and an array of actions seeking to address these issues in spheres of health and development aid, solidarity cooperation, global and domestic policymaking, and civil society mobilization. Health conditions and activities are analyzed in terms of interactions among global, regional, national, local, ... More
Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition of Oxford’s Textbook of Global Health equips students, advocates, and health professionals with building blocks for a critical understanding of global health. It explores societal determinants of health and health inequities within and between countries and an array of actions seeking to address these issues in spheres of health and development aid, solidarity cooperation, global and domestic policymaking, and civil society mobilization. Health conditions and activities are analyzed in terms of interactions among global, regional, national, local, and community forces, resources, and interventions using a critical political economy of health lens that challenges mainstream biomedical and behavioral perspectives.
The text covers the: historical dynamics of the field; political economy of health and development; current global health structures, actors, agencies, and activities; role of health data and the science and politics of measuring health inequities; worldwide patterns of death and disease as shaped by marginalization, deprivation, modernization, and work; impact on health of neoliberal globalization relating to trade, investment, and financial liberalization, illicit financial flows, austerity, and hazardous and precarious work; political ecology of environmental degradation and climate change; humanitarian challenges around addressing ecological disasters, militarism and war, complex emergencies, and refugee crises; principles of health care systems; and politics of health financing. The book encourages avid global health students, practitioners, and activists to consider social justice approaches as both viable and imperative, drawing from various solidarity paradigms and struggles ranging from community-level to national and transnational movements to building healthy societies and practicing global health ethically and equitably.
Keywords:
global health history,
political economy of health,
global health actors,
health data,
health inequities,
societal determinants,
neoliberal globalization,
environmental degradation,
health care systems,
healthy societies,
social justice approaches
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199392285 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2017 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199392285.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, author
Professor of Critical Development Studies and Social and Behavioural Health Studies, University of Toronto
Yogan Pillay, author
Deputy Director General, National Department of Health, South Africa
Timothy H. Holtz, author
Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
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