Understanding Global Health (LANGE Clinical Medicine)

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I chose this book as a textbook for an undergraduate summer course on global and public health. The book is probably among the best available and I found it providing the level of information needed for a short course. The chapters are short enough to each be read in a couple of hours or so making them good homework assignments. The book covers the main areas of global health. Some chapters would have benefited from expansive discussion such as the environmental health chapter that focused on water quality and sanitation or infectious diseases chapter. Topics of tobacco or chronic diseases are not covered or missed from the book. But in all, this is a good book and written in an easy and understandalbe language even for the lay person and I would recommend it. Contents......Page 5 Authors......Page 7 Foreword......Page 11 Foreword......Page 17 Preface......Page 19 1. Global Health: Past, Present, and Future......Page 21 2. The Global Burden of Disease......Page 39 3. Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Surveillance......Page 57 4. The Health of Women/Mothers and Children......Page 81 5. Environmental Health in the Global Context......Page 106 6. Nutrition......Page 124 7. Primary Care in Global Health......Page 148 8. Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS......Page 169 9. War, Catastrophes, Displaced Persons, Refugees, and Terrorism......Page 196 10. Injury and Global Health......Page 220 11. Aging Populations and Chronic Illness......Page 228 12. Emerging Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance......Page 250 13. Global Health Communications, Social Marketing, and Emerging Communication Technologies......Page 264 14. Economics and Global Health......Page 289 15. Health Systems, Management, and Organization in Low- and Middle-Income Countries......Page 300 16. Global Health Ethics......Page 315 17. Education and Careers in Global Health......Page 338 A......Page 363 B......Page 364 C......Page 365 D......Page 366 E......Page 368 G......Page 369 H......Page 370 I......Page 372 L......Page 373 M......Page 374 N......Page 375 P......Page 376 R......Page 378 S......Page 379 T......Page 380 W......Page 381 Z......Page 382