G l o b a l H e a lT H
Introducing Global Health: Practice, Policy, and Solutions Peter Muennig, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Celina Su, Brooklyn College 978-0-470-53328-4 • Paper • 400 pp. • 2013
Introducing Global Health: Practice, Policy, and Solutions is a contemporary overview of the major issues in global public health. The book explores how population health might be maximized with the right blend of health system, education, antipoverty, infectious disease, urban development, governance, and incentive-based policies. Moving beyond statistics, the book represents a major innovation in the teaching of global health by presenting technical concepts including the incidence and prevalence of disease within the context of more accessible topics such as global poverty. This helps students contextualize otherwise challenging but critical concepts, such as the burden of infectious disease. • Covers topics critical for understanding the state of the world today, including wars for natural resources, the missing women phenomenon, and whether global aid really works • Case studies focus on developing economies, mixed economies, and new emerging superpowers • Thematic chapters are interwoven with running motifs, such as the health risks and benefits associated with different totalitarian, capitalist, and market socialist economies By encouraging reflection, focusing on what works, and using activities and exercises, Introducing Global Health both teaches fundamentals of global public health and cultivates a policy perspective that is appealing and compelling for today’s students
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Urban Health: Global Perspectives
URBAN HEALTH GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES D AV I D V L A H O V JO IVE Y BOUFFORD C L A R E N C E PE A R S O N L AURIE NORRIS
FORE WORD BY MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG
David Vlahov, PHhD, RN Jo Ivey Boufford, MD, both of The New York Academy of Medicine Clarence E. Pearson, MPH Laurie Norris 978-0-470-42206-9 • Hardcover • 528 pp. • 2011
Urban Health Global Perspectives identifies the priority problems and outline solutions that can generate and sustain healthy urban environments.
In the twentieth century, the urban settings of the wealthy nations were largely associated with opportunity, accumulation of wealth, and better health than their rural counterparts. In the twenty-first century, demographic changes, globalization, and climate change are having important health consequences on wealthy nations and especially on low- and middle-income countries. The increasing concentration of poverty and significant inequalities between urban neighborhoods and the physical and social environments in cities are important determinants of population health. Utilized by students, professors, and professionals, a distinguished list of contributors offer an introduction to the most critical issues in global and urban health. The book: • Reviews key themes with illustrative examples and cases, and contains the most current evidence • Links social determinants and urban life in developed and developing countries • Contains assessment of primary determinants of well-being in cities: social and built environments, diet, and health care and social services • Covers topics on history of public health in cities, the impact of urban sprawl and urban renewal, and the common challenges
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: An Overview of Global Health. Part 1: The Basics of Global Health. 1. A Very Brief History of Global Health Policy. 2. Case Studies in Development and Health. Part 2: Global Health and the Art of Policy Making. 3. The Global Burden of Disease. 4. Aid. 5. Health Systems. 6. Social Policy and Global Health. 7. A Closer Look at Three Political Economies: China, Kerala, and Chile. 8. Global Governance and Health. Part 3: Key Challenges in Global Health. 9. Poverty. 10. The Physical Environment and Disease. 11. The Social Environment and Disease. 12. Globalization, Internal Conflict, and the Resource Curse. 13. Frontiers in Global Health.
1. Urban Health in a Global Perspective. 2. Globalization. 3. The Demographics of Urbanization in Poor Countries. 4. Migration, Health Systems, and Urbanization. 5. Immigrant Health in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 6. City Case Studies: Global Climate Change and Cities. 7. Age-Friendly New York City. 8. Global Infectious Diseases and Urbanization. 9. City Case Studies: Confronting the New Epidemics in Our Cities. 10. Chronic Disease Care in Nairobi’s Urban Informal Settlements. 11. Crime, Violence, Public Health, and Urban Life. 12. A Global Perspective on Disasters and Their Consequences in the Urban Environment. 13. City Case Studies: Urban Terrorism. 14. The Culture of Peace Against Violence in Zagreb. 15. Urban Health Services and Health Systems Reform. 16. City Case Studies: Information Flow and Integrated E-Health Systems. 17. Governance for Health in London: Utilizing the Health Impact Assessment. 18. Provision of Water and Sanitation Services. 19. Urban Transportation. 20. Informal Settlements: In Search of a Home in the City. 21. Urban Air Quality. 22. Urban Planning and Aesthetics. 23. Healthy Urban Governance. 24. Global Business at the Local Level. 25. Citizen Action for Urban Poverty Reduction in Low- and Middle-Income Nations. 26. City Case Studies: Healthy Cities: Lessons Learned. 27. The Healthy City Program in Shanghai. 28. Urban Health and Governance Model in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 29. Improving Population Health in a Rapidly Urbanizing World. 30. Future Directions.
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