Transforming Global Health
Interdisciplinary Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies
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Beschreibung
This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them. Once the purview of public health, medicine, and nursing, global health is now an interdisciplinary endeavor that relies on expertise from anthropology to urban planning, economics to political science, geography to engineering. Scholars and practitioners in the health sciences are seeking knowledge from a wider array of fields while, simultaneously, students across majors have a growing interest in humanitarian issues and are pursuing knowledge and skills for impacting well-being across geographic and disciplinary borders.
Using a highly practical approach and illustrative case studies, each chapter of this edited volume frames a particular problem and illustrates how interdisciplinary problem-solving can address the greatest challenges in global health today. In doing so, each chapter spurs critical and creative thinkingabout emergent and future problems.Topics explored among the chapters include:
- Transforming health and well-being for refugees and their communities
- Governing to deliver safe and affordable water
- The global crisis of antimicrobial resistance
- Low-tech, high-impact interventions to prevent neonatal mortality
- Communicating taboo health subjects
- Alternative housing delivery for slum upgrades
Transforming Global Health: Interdisciplinary Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies is a vital and timely compendium for any reader invested in improving global health equity. It will find an audience with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and program implementers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the fields of global health, public health, and the health sciences.
This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them. Once the purview of public health, medicine, and nursing, global health is now an interdisciplinary endeavor that relies on expertise from anthropology to urban planning, economics to political science, geography to engineering. Scholars and practitioners in the health sciences are seeking knowledge from a wider array of fields while, simultaneously, students across majors have a growing interest in humanitarian issues and are pursuing knowledge and skills for impacting well-being across geographic and disciplinary borders.
Using a highly practical approach and illustrative case studies, each chapter of this edited volume frames a particular problem and illustrates how interdisciplinary problem-solving can address the greatest challenges in global health today. In doing so, each chapter spurs critical and creative thinking about emergent and future problems.
Topics explored among the chapters include:
- Transforming health and well-being for refugees and their communities
- Governing to deliver safe and affordable water
- The global crisis of antimicrobial resistance
- Low-tech, high-impact interventions to prevent neonatal mortality
- Communicating taboo health subjects
- Alternative housing delivery for slum upgrades
Transforming Global Health: Interdisciplinary Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies is a vital and timely compendium for any reader invested in improving global health equity. It will find an audience with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and program implementers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the fields of global health, public health, and the health sciences.
Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the field of global health and its current complexities and challenges Utilizes novel case studies to present featured concepts in a useful, accessible, and compelling manner Is uniquely positioned as the only book geared towards undergraduate and graduate coursework in public health providing such an extensive array of interdisciplinary perspectives and cases Includes chapters that can be easily selected and curated for undergraduate and graduate courses across disciplines
Autor*in
Korydon H. Smith
Themen in »Transforming Global Health«
global health international health public health health, wellness, and well-being health disparities health equity health inequality environmental health international development sustainable development humanitarian aid humanitarian engineering international health care water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) health and human rights
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