Handbook of Global Health

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-45008-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 2917 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 5918 g

Global health is a rapidly emerging discipline with a transformative potential for public policy and international development. Emphasizing transnational health issues, global health aims to improve health and achieve health equity for all people worldwide. Its multidisciplinary scope includes contributions from many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, including clinical medicine, public health, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, economics, public policy, law and ethics.

This large reference offers up-to-date information and expertise across all aspects of global health and helps readers to achieve a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the topics, trends as well as the clinical, socioeconomic and environmental drivers impacting global health.

As a fully comprehensive, state-of-the-art and continuously updated, living reference, the Handbook of Global Health is an important, dynamic resource to provide context for global health clinical care, organizational decision-making, and overall public policy on many levels. Health workers, physicians, economists, environmental and social scientists, trainees and medical students as well as professionals and practitioners will find this handbook of great value.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kickbusch, Ilona

Ganten, Detlev

Moeti, Matshidiso

Weitere Mitwirkende

Haring, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Global Health - Definition, Principles & Drivers.- Globalization & Global Health - Impact, Trends & Consequences.- Urbanisation & Cities as Drivers of Global Health.- Aging & Global Health.- Cultural Diversity & Global Health.- Digital Transformation & Global Health.- Study Designs in Global Health Research.- Epidemiological Methods & Measures in Global Health Research.- Quantitative Methods in Global Health Research.- Qualitative Methods in Global Health Research.- Mixed-methods in Global Health Research.- Accountability & Aid Effectiveness Research in Global Health.- Global health project design, monitoring & evaluation.- Causal inference in global health epidemiology.- Evidence synthesis in global health epidemiology.- Disease surveillance & monitoring: Epidemic diagnosis & control.- Dynamics of disease occurence & transmission.- Epidemiological transition & changing pattern of disease.- Demographic approaches to population dynamics.- Population mortality & global causes of death - pattern & trends.- Global Migration & Population Health .- Population health dynamics & fertility: pattern, predictors & projections.- Global burden of CVD - prevalence, pattern & trends.- Global burden of COPD - prevalence, pattern & trends.- Global burden of Cancer - prevalence, pattern & trends.- Global burden of Alzheimer & other dementias.- Global burden of Diabetes Mellitus.- Global burden of Road injury.

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Haring, Ph.D. Professor at the European University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Adjunct Professor at Monash University, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, Australia.



His research interests focus on biomarker, cardiovascular epidemiology and global health. He published 100+ articles, several books and book chapters, and received fellowships and funding from the Max-Planck Society, European Union and World Heart Federation. He is also editor-in-chief of the Springer Major Reference Work “Gesundheitswissenschaften”.

Ilona Kickbusch, Ph.D. Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

She has had a distinguished career with the WHO, where she initiated the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and a range of “settings projects” including Healthy Cities. Her key areas of interest are global health governance, globalhealth diplomacy and health in all policies. She advises organisations, government agencies and the private sector on policies and strategies to promote global health at all levels. She has published widely and is a member of a number of advisory boards in both the academic and the health policy arena. She has recently launched a think-tank initiative “Global Health Europe: A Platform for European Engagement in Global Health” and the “Consortium for Global Health Diplomacy”.

Detlev Ganten, MD, Ph.D. Founding President of the World Health Summit and Chairman of the Board of the Charité Foundation.



He was appointed as Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg in 1975 and moved to Berlin in 1991 where he became the Founding Director and President of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC). He held these roles until 2004, when he became the Chief Executive Officer at the “Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin”. His research in the molecular biology of high blood pressure, public health and bioethics received many international awards and prizes. He also functions in various scientific societies and committees, including several honours and awarded memberships. In 2009, he founded the World Health Summit, a leading annual international conference in Berlin to find solutions for the challenges posed by global health.



Matshidiso Moeti, MD WHO Regional Director for Africa.

Prior to WHO, she worked with UNAIDS as Team Leader of the Africa and Middle East Desk in Geneva (1997–1999), with UNICEF as Regional Health Advisor for East and Southern Africa, and with Botswana’s Ministry of Health as a clinician and public health specialist. Within WHO, she served as Assistant Regional Director, Director of Non-Communicable Diseases at the regional office, WHO Country Representative in Malawi and Coordinator of the Inter-Country Support Teamfor the South and East African countries of WHO African Region. As a public health veteran, with more than 35 years of national and international experience, she was the first woman to be elected as WHO Regional Director for Africa in 2015. Under her leadership she is cultivating strong partnerships to support countries to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), improve health security, and promote better well-being to make health a reality for all people in Africa.