全球健康

“一般参考话题相关卫生worlwide这百科全书是雄心勃勃的在它的范围,与特定疾病的条目和条件、地理区域、健康问题,传记信息,和与世界卫生组织政策。”-CHOICE "A useful, one-stop reference for health professionals and the general population alike that speaks to important changes and issues in global health; a foundation of knowledge essential for any library." -Library Journal The contemporary understanding of global health is complicated and extends to all ends of the Earth and beyond. From the health effects of global warming to the implications of single nucleotide differences on disease, the factors that impact global health are extremely diverse and are changing constantly. As new scientific advances are made, as new policies are implemented, as wars are waged and peace agreements signed, or as new strains of infectious diseases evolve, the state of global health changes. The Encyclopedia of Global Health is a comprehensive, one stop reference to a broad array of health topics worldwide. Encompassing four volumes with more than 1,200 articles, the Encyclopedia covers all aspects of health, including physical and mental health entries, biographies of major doctors and researchers, profiles of medical institutions, organizations, and corporations, descriptions of drugs and operations, articles on national health policies, and thematic health topics in the humanities. Key Features Offers a truly global approach by giving the current health status in each country of five continents Compares the mortality rates of infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases in developing and developed countries Presents a historical context for important changes and issues in global health and serves as a foundat

国际范围,全球卫生交流的手册提供了一个全面和最新的分析在全球公共卫生交流过程的作用,开发和社会变革汇集了32的贡献备受尊敬的学者和实践者,解决广泛的通信方式在当前全球卫生项目提供了一个集成视图,联系沟通加强卫生服务,受影响社区的参与在制定卫生政策和改善保健和公民的权利决定卫生实行广泛的沟通理解,超越传统的信息之间的分歧和参与式方法

保护和促进健康是固有的政治努力,需要复杂的理解权力的分配和使用。虽然健康的全球性质被广泛认可,其政治自然是不太理解。近几十年来,theinterdisciplinary全球卫生领域政治出现证明健康的互联和核心政治话题,包括外交和安全政策、贸易、经济、和发展。今天越来越多的学术调查了全球卫生状况已bothshaped与被政治角色和结构形状。全球健康政治的牛津手册provides an authoritative overview and assessment of research on this important and complicated subject. The volume is motivated by two arguments. First, health is not simply a technical subject, requiring evidence-based solutions to real-world problems,but an arena of political contestation where norms, values, and interests also compete and collide. Second, globalization has fundamentally changed the nature of health politics in terms of the ideas, interests, and institutions involved.The volume comprises more than 30 chapters by leading experts in global health and politics. Each chaper provides an overview of the state of the art on a given theoretical perspective, major actor, or global health issue. The Handbook offers both an excellent introduction to scholars new to thefield and also an invaluable teaching and research resource for experts seeking to understand global health politics and its future directions.