GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH: Understanding Public Health

This book offers students and practitioners an accessible exploration of global health.
Global health is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field as public health practitioners recognize the important challenges that global changes are posing for human health. Health issues are increasingly crossing national boundaries, and this book explores the actors that shape global health, including private companies, foundations, civil society and multilateral organizations, and explores some of the key issues in global health.
Illuminating the changes happening in health worldwide, the book includes practical activities and applications which help to show the impact of global issues at an everyday level. The issues covered include:
• Social change linked to globalization
• Governance of global health
• Pharmaceuticals and tobacco
• Emerging infectious diseases
• Climate change
• Economy and trade
• Health security
Globalisation and Health 2nd edition is an ideal resource for students of public health and health policy, public health practitioners and policy makers.
In this book…
• Introduction to globalization and health
• Globalization, social change, and health
• Introduction to the global economy
• Global health and governance
• Globalization – the state, bilateral and multilateral cooperation
• Commercial actors and global health governance
• Non-government actors in global health
• Trade and global health
• Globalization, commercialization, and the tobacco and alcohol sectors
• The globalization of the pharmaceutical industry
• Globalization and non-communicable diseases
• Globalization and infectious diseases
• Globalization, environmental change, and impacts on human health
• Global health and security
• Postscript: Ebola