Oliver Razum – författare

Globalization is a form of social change, reshaping the socio-spatial milieu in which humans strive, and in which health and disease are managed and controlled. And yet the effects of globalization are distributed unevenly, with opportunities open for some but not for all.Globalization, Health and the Global South is an important textbook for any student of this fascinating area. Examining the dynamics of globalization through the lens of the Global South, it highlights risks and vulnerabilities that affect different regions and contexts, exacerbating inequalities despite the continuing speed of global processes. The books takes a critical approach to the topic, offering readers a deep understanding of health discourses and discusses a range of key topics, including migrant health, the role of politics and diplomacy and the Coronavirus pandemic.Including further reading and end of chapter discussion questions, this essential textbook will be important reading for students across the health and social sciences.

Globalization is a form of social change, reshaping the socio-spatial milieu in which humans strive, and in which health and disease are managed and controlled. And yet the effects of globalization are distributed unevenly, with opportunities open for some but not for all.Globalization, Health and the Global South is an important textbook for any student of this fascinating area. Examining the dynamics of globalization through the lens of the Global South, it highlights risks and vulnerabilities that affect different regions and contexts, exacerbating inequalities despite the continuing speed of global processes. The books takes a critical approach to the topic, offering readers a deep understanding of health discourses and discusses a range of key topics, including migrant health, the role of politics and diplomacy and the Coronavirus pandemic.Including further reading and end of chapter discussion questions, this essential textbook will be important reading for students across the health and social sciences.

Forced migration has yet to be sufficiently addressed from the perspective of health policy and systems research, resulting in limited knowledge on system‐level interventions and policies to improve the health of forced migrants. The contributions within this edited volume seek to rectify this gap in the literature by compiling the existing knowledge on health systems and health policy responses to forced migration with a focus on asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced people. It also brings together the work of research communities from the fields of political science, epidemiology, health sciences, economics, psychology, and sociology to push the knowledge frontier of health research in the area of forced migration towards health policy and systems-level interventions, while also framing potential routes for further research in this area.Among the analyses within the chapters:The political economy of health and forced migration in EuropeInnovative humanitarian health financing for refugeesUnderstanding the resilience of health systemsHealth security in the context of forced migrationDiscrimination as a health systems response to forced migrationHealth Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration offers unique and interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical, and literature-based perspectives that apply a health policy and systems approach to health and healthcare challenges among forced migrants. It will find an engaged audience among policy makers and analysts, international organizations, scholars in academia, think tanks, and students in undergraduate programs or at the graduate level, for policy, practice, and educational purposes.

Forced migration has yet to be sufficiently addressed from the perspective of health policy and systems research, resulting in limited knowledge on system‐level interventions and policies to improve the health of forced migrants. The contributions within this edited volume seek to rectify this gap in the literature by compiling the existing knowledge on health systems and health policy responses to forced migration with a focus on asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced people. It also brings together the work of research communities from the fields of political science, epidemiology, health sciences, economics, psychology, and sociology to push the knowledge frontier of health research in the area of forced migration towards health policy and systems-level interventions, while also framing potential routes for further research in this area.Among the analyses within the chapters:The political economy of health and forced migration in EuropeInnovative humanitarian health financing for refugeesUnderstanding the resilience of health systemsHealth security in the context of forced migrationDiscrimination as a health systems response to forced migrationHealth Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration offers unique and interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical, and literature-based perspectives that apply a health policy and systems approach to health and healthcare challenges among forced migrants. It will find an engaged audience among policy makers and analysts, international organizations, scholars in academia, think tanks, and students in undergraduate programs or at the graduate level, for policy, practice, and educational purposes.

This Palgrave Pivot examines refugee camps in the EU, Australia, and their border zones. With its contributions from a wide range of fields, this edited volume will be of interest to academics and students in public health, ethics, sociology, politics, and related fields.

Die 4., vollständig aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage des praxisorientierten Lehrbuchs Public Health Kompakt bietet Studierenden einen leicht verständlichen Einstieg in die verschiedenen Aspekte des Fachs Public Health. Renommierte AutorInnen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz vermitteln neben den grundlegenden Public-Health-Begriffen und -Konzepten das Basiswissen aus den Bereichen Epidemiologie, Biostatistik, Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention sowie zur Gesundheitsökonomie und zum Aufbau der Gesundheitssysteme. Darüber hinaus geht es auf aktuelle Themen wie die COVID-19-Pandemie und die klimatischen, ökologischen und gesundheitlichen Folgen des Klimawandels ein. Weitere Schwerpunkte bilden neben der Epidemiologie von Infektionskrankheiten und chronischen Erkrankungen sowie dem Thema Umwelt und Gesundheit auch die Bereiche Arbeit und Gesundheit, Globale Gesundheit (International Health) und Gesundheit im Verlauf des Lebens (Life Course Approach to Health). Zahlreiche aktuelle Abbildungen und Tabellen dienen der Verdeutlichung und Visualisierung komplizierter Zusammenhänge. Die einheitliche redaktionelle Bearbeitung macht die Texte leicht verständlich, ohne dass dabei Korrektheit und Genauigkeit verloren gehen. Das Lehrbuch, das auch die Public-Health-Inhalte im Nationalen Kompetenzbasierten Lernzielkatalog Medizin (NKLM) abdeckt, vermittelt Studierenden im Gesundheitsbereich in kurzer, prägnanter Form einen Überblick über die für sie relevanten Public-Health-Inhalte und ermöglicht ihnen, sich das prüfungsrelevante Wissen im Bereich Public Health problemlos zu erarbeiten.

Medical Sociology in Africa

This book offers deep insight into the social dimensions of health and illness. It features global relevance coupled with illustrations from an African context. The book also presents current research directions in the field.

This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic diseases in Africa. It identifies, explains and illustrates the contexts, challenges and efforts to combat these diseases. The book provides a unique comparative analysis of African contexts of health, thereby not ignoring the global contexts of health within which Africa exists. It follows a macro-analytic stance about health in Africa framed around significant/pressing issues. "Discourse of disease" is part of a profound sociological discourse of health in Africa, which provides a framework for students, academics and healthcare practitioners to understand the states of health and healthcare in Africa.

This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic diseases in Africa.

Wer ein gesundheitswissenschaftliches Fach oder Medizin studiert, darf sich auf die Epidemiologie freuen, denn dann wird es richtig spannend. Oliver Razum, Jürgen Breckenkamp und Patrick Brzoska führen in diesen Querschnittsbereich der Medizin und der Gesundheitswissenschaften ein. Sie erläutern, wie Epidemiologen Risikofaktoren und Krankheiten der Bevölkerung untersuchen, wie Studiendesigns aufgebaut sind und welche Methoden zur kritischen Datenanalyse angewendet werden. Anhand vieler Beispiele erfahren Sie, wie sich Seuchen wie Corona ausbreiten, warum Bewegung gesund ist und warum Rauchen krank macht.

Das Handbuch informiert über die Grundlagen der Gesundheitsversorgung in Entwicklungsländern ebenso wie über wichtige Einflussgrößen auf die Gesundheit der Menschen in diesen Ländern. Es behandelt einerseits die Rahmenbedingungen von Gesundheit und Krankheit und medizinischem Handeln in den Ländern des Südens sowie den sich daraus ergebenden Anforderungen an den Public Health Sektor und bietet andererseits Ratschläge für die klinische und präventive Arbeit mit begrenzten Mitteln. Das Buch konzentriert sich auf den Bereich Public Health/Community Health. Anhand von Beispielen aus den Bereichen Familien- und Mutter-und-Kind-Versorgung, Organisation von Gesundheitsdiensten und Krankenversorgung, Kontrolle endemischer Krankheiten und anderen Bereichen werden angepasste Prinzipien von Planung und Management auf Distriktebene vermittelt.

About half of the world’s population is still at risk for contracting malaria, and the main disease burden is now in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). As a result of the activities of a number of new and powerful Global Health Initiatives, malaria morbidity and mortality has recently started to decrease and the idea of eradication has re-emerged. This book provides a comprehensive update on the recent developments of the epidemiology of malaria and of existing strategies and tools for malaria control and elimination in Africa, which is discussed in the context of the long global history of malaria control. The main message is that the ambitious Global Malaria Action Plan of RBM will fail without serious efforts to systematically and massively strengthen the health systems of African countries.

Migration-sensitive monitoring of health is essential in order to assess and react to changing health care needs of culturally diverse groups in Europe. One example is cancer registration, allowing for the ascertainment and analysis of trends in cancer occurrence and survival in good time. This book for the first time presents a detailed overview and methodological discussion of migration-sensitive cancer registration in selected European countries. It describes the current situation on the European level by means of five country reports, written in close collaborations with local experts. It examines the ideas of developing common indicators, standardizing data collection procedures and enhancing networking throughout Europe.

This book analyzes the patterns of and factors associated with health seeking behavior and out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) in rural Malawi. The author used descriptive statistics to describe treatment options and related household OOP expenditure on CNCDs and econometrics models to analyze factors influencing health seeking behavior and OOP expenditure on CNCDs. This study found that in spite of a context where care for CNCDs should in principle be free of charge at the point of use, the utilization rates of CNCD care are still low and OOP payments impose a considerable financial burden on rural households, especially among the poorest.

Was hat die „Tropenmedizin" im „Globalen Norden" zu suchen? Was kann eine Universität, ein „Tropeninstitut", im „Globalen Norden" zur Verbesserung der Gesundheitssituation im „Globalen Süden" beitragen? Die Antwort: „Tropenmedizin" muss sich zu „Globaler Medizin" hin entwickeln. Das heutige Heidelberg Institute of Global Health an der Universität Heidelberg ist diesen Weg von seinen Anfängen als Institut für Tropenhygiene 1962 bis heute konsequent gegangen. Hans Jochen Diesfeld hat diesen Weg aktiv gestaltet und begleitet. Er zeichnet ihn in diesem Band nach und zeigt dabei die verschiedenen Einflussfaktoren und Herausforderungen auf. Er erweist damit all denen Referenz, die über vier akademische Generationen hinweg dazu beigetragen haben.