An Introduction to Global Health - Softcover

Seear, Michael; Ezezika, Obidimma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1773380036 ISBN 13: 9781773380032

Publisher: Canadian Scholars Pr, 2018

Synopsis

An Introduction to Global Health presents a broad yet detailed overview of population health in developing countries. This text carefully examines the factors that influence a community's health status and determine the effectiveness of modern aid solutions against war, governance, and contamination. Essential for university-level students, this provocative book provides answers to questions concerning the disparity between the rise of healthier, richer populations and the continued existence of impoverished, disease-ridden countries. With Obidimma Ezezika as the new author, this third edition draws on contemporary references, statistics, and figures, rendering its exploration of international health timely and relevant. It also includes a section on topical health issues in light of the new Sustainable Development Goals, and maintains a critical focus on poor population health status, problems of poverty and malnutrition, world debt relief, and human rights interventions. Features: includes new chapter summaries, updated pictures and graphs, discussion questions, and additional recommended resources includes a final section with strategies for working safely in developing nations

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Michael Seear is a Professor at the University of British Columbia and Staff Physician in the Department of Respiratory/Intensive Care at the Children's Hospital in Vancouver. Obidimma Ezezika is a Grand Challenges Fellow and the Founder of the African Centre for Innovation and Leadership Development. He holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of public health and the Faculty of Health Sciences, UOIT, where he teaches global health.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canadian Scholars Pr
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1773380036
• ISBN 13: 9781773380032
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 630