Textbook of Global Health

Anne-Emanuelle Birn is Professor of Critical Development Studies (UTSC) and Social and Behavioural Health Sciences (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) at the University of Toronto, where she served as Canada Research Chair in International Health from 2003 to 2013. She is widely published in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Africa; her books include: Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico (2006); and Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home (2013).Professor Birn's honors include Fulbright and Rotary fellowships, election to the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, and numerous endowed lectureships across the Americas and Asia. In 2014 she was recognized among the top 100 Women Leaders in Global Health.Yogan Pillay is Deputy Director General for HIV, Tuberculosis, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Programmes in the National Department of Health, South Africa. He has 20 years' experience in the planning and implementation of health system reforms and has published widely on the topics of HIV, tuberculosis, and health systems.Timothy H. Holtz is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. His field experience has focused on infectious disease epidemiology and disease control, and he has worked with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a consultant to the World Health Organization. From 2002-2010 Dr. Holtz worked in southern Africa, Eastern Europe, and South America on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis control and tuberculosis/HIV program capacity building. He is an internationally recognized expert on the emerging threat of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance and was part of the team of scientists that discovered extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB).He has also directed an HIV prevention clinical trial research program in Thailand, and an HIV and TB technical assistance program in India. He is a founding member of Doctors for Global Health, a health and social justice nongovernmental organization with projects in the U.S.

[P]rovides an important focus on the political economy of health and highlights the importance of a social-justice approach, incorporating the social and political economies of LMICs, to building healthy societies.

• Preface: Why Global Health? Acknowledgements 1. The Historical Origins of Modern International Health Antecedents of Modern International Health: Black Death, Colonial Conquest, and the Atlantic Slave TradeHealth, the Tropics, and the Imperial SystemIndustrialization, Urbanization, and the Emergence of Modern Public HealthThe Making of International HealthInternational Health Institution-Building: The LNHO and the Inter-War YearsConclusion 2. Between International and Global Health: Contextualizing the Present The Post-World War II International (Health) OrderThe Rise of the WHO and "Third World" DevelopmentStraddling International and Global HealthConclusion 3. Political Economy of Health and Development Political Economy of Health (and Development)Political Economy of Development (and Health)Recent Development and Global Health ApproachesConclusion: What Does a Political Economy Approach Bring to the Global Health Arena? 4. Global Health Actors and Activities Snapshot of Global Health Actors, Agencies, and ProgramsPolitical Economy of Global Health Actors and ActivitiesConclusion 5. Data on Health: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know, and Why Does it Matter Why Health Data MatterTypes of Health DataConclusion 6. Epidemiologic Profiles of Global Health and Disease Leading Causes of Morbidity and Mortality Across Societies and the Life CycleEpidemiology and the Political Economy of DiseaseConclusion 7. Health Equity and the Societal Determinants of Health Social Determinants/Determinants of Health: What Makes the Underlying Determinants of Health Societal as Opposed to IndividualOperationalizing Political Economy of Health through SDOHUnderstanding Health InequitiesFrom Political, Economic, Social, and Historical Context to Population Health and Health Inequities: Pathways and PossibilitiesSocietal Governance and Social PoliciesFrom Living Conditions to Embodied InfluencesAddressing Health Inequities and the Social Determinants of Health 8. Health under Crises and the Limits to Humanitarianism "Ecological Disasters" and Their ImplicationsFamine and Food AidWar, Militarism, and Public HealthRefugees and IDPs: Numbers, Types, PlacesComplex Humanitarian EmergenciesPolitical Economy of Disasters and CHEs: Where Does Humanitarianism Fit In?Conclusion 9. Globalization, Trade, Work, and Health Globalization and Its (Dis)contentsHealth Effects of Neo-liberal GlobalizationWork and Occupational Health and Safety Across the WorldSigns of Hope for the Future: Resistance to Neoliberal GlobalizationConclusion 10. Health and the Environment Framing Environmental Health Problems: the Motors and DriversHealth Problems and Environmental Problems and Vice VersaClimate ChangeWhat Is to Be Done? Multiple Layers of ChangeConclusion 11. Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems Principles of Health SystemsHealth Systems ArchetypesPrimary Health Care, Its Renewal, and the Turn to Universal CoverageHealth System ReformBuilding Blocks of a Health SystemConclusion 12. Health Economics and the Politics of Health Financing Health Economics: A SnapshotHealth Care Financing ReduxCost Analyses in the Health SectorMarket Approaches to Health in LMICsThe Role of International Agencies in Health Care FinancingContrasting Approaches to Investing for HealthConclusion 13. Building Healthy Societies: From Ideas to Action What Constitutes Success in Global HealthVertical Health Programs and Global Health Interventions: Successes and LimitationsHealth Societies: Case StudiesHealthy Public Policy: Health Promotion, Healthy Cities, and Emerging FrameworksConclusion: The Making of Healthy Societies 14. Social Justice Approaches to Global Health Recapping the Global Health Arena: Dominant Approaches, Ongoing Challenges, and Points of InspirationA Social Justice Approach to Practicing Health: Individuals, Organizations, and the Logic of the World OrderConclusion: What Is To Be Done?