Global Change and Health

Informationen zum Autor Senior Lecturer in Global Health Policy at LSHTM. Klappentext Global health is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field as public health practitioners recognize the important challenges that global changes are posing for human health. Increasingly the determinants of health circumvent! undermine or are oblivious to the territorial boundaries of states. To effectively address health concerns exceeds the capacity of individual countries acting alone through domestic institutions. The issues covered include: Food! tobacco and pharmaceuticals Emerging infectious diseasesClimate changeEconomy and tradeSecurity and governance Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Overview of the book Introduction to global health Global social change Gender! globalisation and health The impact of globalisation on food The impact of globalisation on emerging infectious disease Introduction to the global economy The world trade organization and public health The globalisation of the pharmaceutical industry The global economy and the tobacco pandemic Global environmental changes! climate change! and human health Global health and security Health! globalisation and governance: An introduction to public health's "new world order" The changing role of the private sector in global health Health and an emerging global civil society Glossary Index

Product details

• Authors: Kelley Lee, Kelley Collin Lee
• Assisted by: Jeff Collin (Editor), Kelley Lee (Editor)
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2005
• EAN: 9780335218486
• ISBN: 978-0-335-21848-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Understanding Public Health; Understanding Public Health
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology