2nd Edition

Global Health An Introduction to Current and Future Trends

By Kevin McCracken, David R. Phillips Copyright 2017
466 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

466 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

466 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Global Health continues to provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the constantly evolving global health landscape. In this new edition the authors have maintained the successful structure and organisation of the previous edition to examine and explain recent health changes and consider likely future patterns. New or... Read more

Part 1: Concepts, Data, Measurement, Explanations   1. Global Health: An Introduction   2. Measuring Population Health and Disease   3. The Determinants of Population Health   Part 2: Global Health and Health Transition - Past and Present - Places and Groups   4. Global Health: Where We Are and How We Got There   5. Global Health: Subnational Inequalities   6. Age and Lifecourse Transitions in Health   7. Major Contemporary Challenges in Global Health   Part 3: Global Health Futures: Future Transitions and Health Planning   8. Health Systems, Finance and Planning   9. Global Environmental Change and Health   10. Geopolitics, Human Security and Health   11. Global Health Futures?

Biography

Kevin McCracken is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia and an Honorary Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

David R. Phillips is a Chair Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia.