Main description:

Global health has seen an influx of investment and interest over the last two decades, fueling significant gains in areas such as infectious disease and maternal and child health. As new threats continue to emerge - pandemics, health impacts of climate change, the growing burdens of an aging population - it's clear that global health will require fresh thinking and continued investment in order to build on its early successes.

Readings in Global Health is a collection of authoritative review articles on topics in global health excerpted from the New England Journal of Medicine. Authored and edited by leading voices in the field, this volume serves as an ideal introduction to both the state of global health and its road from here. With extensive illustration, referencing, and supplemental commentaries by editors David J. Hunter and Harvey V. Fineberg, it's an essential guide to the principles and
practice of global health and works as a textbook for students taking global health courses as well.

Contents:

1. A Global View of Health-An Unfolding Series
Harvey V. Fineberg and David J. Hunter

Part I: Global Disease Patterns and Predictions

2. Measuring the Global Burden of Disease
Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez

3. Globalization, Climate Change, and Human Health
Anthony J. McMichael

Part II: Infectious Diseases

4. The Perpetual Challenge of Infectious Diseases
Anthony S. Fauci and David M. Morens

5. Response to the AIDS Pandemic-A Global Health Model
Peter Piot and Thomas C. Quinn

6. Pandemic Preparedness and Response-Lessons from the H1N1 Influenza of 2009
Harvey V. Fineberg

7. Ebola Virus Disease: Past and Present
Rupa Kanapathipillai, Armand G Sprecher, and Lindsey R Baden

8. Designing Tomorrow's Vaccines
Gary J. Nabel

9. Disease Eradication
Donald R. Hopkins

Part III: Non-Communicable Diseases

10. Behavioral and Dietary Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases
Majid Ezzati and Elio Riboli

11. Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco
Prabhat Jha and Richard Peto

12. Noncommunicable Diseases
David J. Hunter and K. Srinath Reddy

13. Mental Health and the Global Agenda
Anne E. Becker and Arthur Kleinman

14. Injuries
Robyn Norton and Olive Kobusingye

Part IV: Health System Responses

15. Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health-So Near and Yet So Far
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Robert E. Black

16. Health Care Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Anne Mills

17. Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health
Jennifer Leaning and Debarati Guha-Sapir

Part V: Global Institutional Responses

18. Governance Challenges in Global Health
Julio Frenk and Suerie Moon

19. Global Health Law
Lawrence O. Gostin and Devi Sridhar

20. Global Supply of Health Professionals
Nigel Crisp and Lincoln Chen

21. Convergence to Common Purpose in Global Health
David J. Hunter and Harvey V. Fineberg

Index