Understanding Global HealthMcGraw Hill Professional, 2007 M08 15 - 384 páginas The rapidly evolving world of global health and medicine-in the palm of your hand Understanding Global Health is the groundbreaking, go-to primer that puts global health and its many challenges into sharp focus like no other text. Written with the nonspecialist in mind, this powerful resource expertly reviews all the core topics that you must know in order to thrive in this decentralized new global health environment. It's all here: unique, authoritative coverage of public health concepts, plus insights into infectious diseases and clinical medicine-everything you need to truly comprehend how global medicine is dramatically affecting today's practice of medicine-and to prepare for your role in it. |
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... continue to comprise a significant portion of the burden of diseases in the developing world, as it has been clearly described in most chapters of this book. We need to emphasize that many people outside the industrialized world now ...
... continuing to kill millions in the developing world, until the early 1990s when tuberculosis rates began to rise again in deprived communities in high-income countries, and drug- resistant forms of tuberculosis began to pose a risk.” 5 ...
... continue to call for a comprehensive and strong. 8http://www.who.int/social_determinants/strategy/en/. 9Antman E, Lau J, Kupelnick B, et al. A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control and recommendations of clinical ...
... continue to call for a comprehensive and strong response to this most urgent issue facing global health. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of global health and further reinforces our conviction that we cannot wait any longer ...
... continue their developmental, demographic, and epidemiologic transitions (Table 1-1). In Bayesian fashion, global populations are trading one set of diseases for another. In many countries, improved socioeconomic and public health ...
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4 The Health of WomenMothers and Children | 61 |
5 Environmental Health in the Global Context | 86 |
6 Nutrition | 104 |
7 Primary Care in Global Health | 128 |
8 Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS | 149 |
11 Aging Populations and Chronic Illness | 208 |
12 Emerging Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance | 230 |
13 Global Health Communications Social Marketing and Emerging Communication Technologies | 244 |
14 Economics and Global Health | 269 |
15 Health Systems Management and Organization in Low and MiddleIncome Countries | 280 |
16 Global Health Ethics | 295 |
17 Education and Careers in Global Health | 318 |
Index | 343 |
9 War Catastrophes Displaced Persons Refugees and Terrorism | 176 |
10 Injury and Global Health | 200 |
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Understanding Global Health William H. Markle,Melanie A. Fisher,Smego Jr. Vista previa limitada - 2007 |