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Zusatztext With one out of every three deaths in the world now being caused by four types of chronic disease-heart disease! respiratory disease! common cancers! and type 2 diabetes-what path should public health practitioners take to stem the rising human and financial cost of non-communicable diseases? David Stuckler and Karen Siegel have edited a new data-driven tome that addresses this question better than any text I've seen to date-providing essential reading both forepidemiologists and public health campaigners looking for data and guidance in their movements for healthier foods! cleaner air! and access to essential medicines and primary care medical homes. Informationen zum Autor David Stuckler, is a university lecturer in sociology at Cambridge University and research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Chatham House. He has written over 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles on the economics of global health in The Lancet, Nature, and Foreign Affairs in addition to other major journals. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, his MPH from Yale University and his PhD from Cambridge beforebecoming a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at Oxford and receiving an appointment as an assistant professor at Harvard. He has won grants from the World Health Organization and UNICEF on the political economy of healthcare, and from the European Centers for Disease Control on theimpact of economic crises on public health. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford on the subjects of global politics, economics and health as well as quantitative methods.Karen Siegel, MPH, is a PhD student in Nutrition and Health Sciences and a Woodruff Scholar at Emory University's Laney Graduate School and Rollins School of Public Health. She has written articles on environmental and policy approaches to prevent chronic diseases in India and globally, as well as on diabetes advocacy issues and chronic disease curricula improvement, in Health Affairs, The Lancet, Globalization & Health, and Nursing Standard. Previously, she played a major role in thedevelopment of the Oxford Health Alliance's Community Interventions for Health as part of the study's evaluation team, based at Matrix Public Health Solutions, Inc. and later at Oxford University. Siegel received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MPH from Yale School of Public Health. She isco-chair of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network. Klappentext Chronic diseases-heart disease! diabetes! lung disease! and common cancers-claim more than one out of every two lives worldwide. Within the next few decades their toll will rise! most greatly in developing countries. Yet this rapid growth of chronic diseases is not being met with a proportionate global response. This book provides the first comprehensive review of the topic. Zusammenfassung Chronic diseases-heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, and common cancers-claim more than one out of every two lives worldwide. Within the next few decades their toll will rise, most greatly in developing countries. Yet this rapid growth of chronic diseases is not being met with a proportionate global response. This book provides the first comprehensive review of the topic....
