Essentials of Global Health - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 2nd Edition

by Babulal Sethia, BSc MB BS FRCP FRCS, Parveen Kumar, DBE, BSc, MD, DM, DEd, FRCP, FRCP(L&E), FRCPath, FIAP, Dominik Zenner, MA MSc FHEA MD MRCGP FFPH and Anandita Pattnaik

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Essentials of Global Health offers medical students and doctors an insight into the Global Health world. Ahead of its time when first published, Essentials of Global Health anticipated a shift that has now become mainstream. The first edition was originally authored by medical students and junior doctors. It is now updated by leading experts in the field. With global health embedded in medical school curricula worldwide, this new edition offers a timely, accessible introduction to a field that is as wide‑ranging as it is essential.

This unique text covers the core concepts of global health— from epidemiology, disease burden, and global surgery to social determinants, health systems, and policy—breaking them into succinct, easy-to-understand chapters. This helps students build a clear framework for analysing health inequities, evaluating interventions, and translating evidence into compassionate care. Each chapter ends with references which elaborate further on the topic, making this title a great first introduction to Global Health.

Key Features
- Features concise text, practical diagrams, and key points boxes that help students understand important issues and apply what they’ve learned
- Covers key topics such as must-know global health organisations; politics, economics, and education; law, ethics, and human rights; specific global health challenges such as neglected tropical diseases, ageing and dying, mental health, dental health, and violence and injury; planetary health issues such as natural disasters, urbanization, and pollution; and much more
- Includes new chapters on global surgery, artificial intelligence, pandemics, and planetary health
- Contains new content on climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as food, agriculture, and food systems transitions
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows access to all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
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Contents

Section 1 What is Global Health?
1.1 A History of Global Health
1.2 Key Concepts in Global Health
1.3 The Global Burden of Disease
1.4 Determinants of Health
1.5 Evaluation of Health Care

Section 2 Health Care Provision
2.1 Health Systems
2.2 Health Sectors
2.3 Universal Health Coverage
2.4 Access to Medicines
2.5 The Health Workforce

Section 3 Global Health Actors
3.1 The United Nations and the World Health Organization
3.2 International Organisations
3.3 National Governments
3.4 Nongovernmental Organisations and Social Movements
3.5 Building Equitable Partnerships

Section 4 Politics, Economics and Education
4.1 Poverty, Social Inequality and Health
4.2 Trade and Health
4.3 Health and Industry
4.4 The Pharmaceutical Industry
4.5 Health Policy and Research
4.6 Education and Health

Section 5 Law, Ethics and Human Rights
5.1 Human Rights and Health
5.2 Law and Health
5.3 Access to Health Care for Vulnerable Groups
5.4 Ethics and Health
5.5 Social Theories and Health
5.6 Culture, Religion, Ethnicity and Health
5.7 A.I.

Section 6 Specific Global Health Challenges
6.1 Communicable Diseases
6.2 Neglected Tropical Diseases
6.3 Noncommunicable Diseases
6.4 Ageing and Dying
6.5 Mental Health
6.6 Surgery
6.7 Maternal Health
6.8 Child Health
6.9 Global Dental Health
6.10 Violence and Injury

Section 7 Planetary Health
7.1 Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Health
7.2 Natural Disasters
7.3 Conflict and Health
7.4 Food and Agriculture /Food systems transitions
7.5 Urbanisation and Transport
7.6 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
7.7 Air Pollution
7.8 Pandemic
Authors

Babulal Sethia, BSc MB BS FRCP FRCS, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Trust; Past-President and Global Health Lead of The Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK, Parveen Kumar, DBE, BSc, MD, DM, DEd, FRCP, FRCP(L&E), FRCPath, FIAP, Professor of Medicine and Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, and Honorary Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Barts Health NHS Trust and Homerton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, Dominik Zenner, MA MSc FHEA MD MRCGP FFPH and Anandita Pattnaik
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