Understanding the Global Dimensions of Health

Health care is a basic human right. However, as our planet grows smaller, the number of people without even minimal care continues to rise. This volume brings into sharp focus the ethics and multiple questions involved in keeping the world in optimal health, and identifies the massive tasks that lie ahead. Twenty-one prestigious contributors examine the bioethical, sociopolitical, and scientific aspects of health, epidemics, aging populations, the double burden of disease, food safety, and other major health concerns of well-being at the international level.

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-The editor and his contributors are prestigious in the global health community, many holding positions as affiliated with the World Health Organization. Also, Gunn is a head of the Society for Humanitarian Medicine. -Will appeal as a high level policy book in public health and health courses.

Inhalt
Fundamentals.- A Brief History of Advances Toward Health.- The Health, Poverty, and Development Merry-Go-Round.- Old and New Pestilences.- Value Systems and Healthcare Ethics.- World Health.- Systems.- Health Policies versus Public Policies.- A Medicine Based on Evidence.- The Promise of Technology.- Critical Inquiries on Technology Utilization.- Therapeutic Patient Education for Chronic Diseases.- The Dynamics.- The Humanitarian Imperative in Major Health Crises and Disasters.- Dealing with Global Infectious Disease Emergencies.- Knowledge-Based Methodologies in the Health Sector.- Food Safety: A Pressing Public-Health and Economic Issue.- Future Health in an Ageing World.- The Controversies.- Disease and Health in the Cultural Context.- Global Issues and Health Interactions.- The Coming Storm.- Education, Understanding, and Eudaemonia.- Postscript: The Present and the Future of Global Health.