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Diseases, Programs, Systems and Policies, 2nd Edition Cloth cover: 703 pages
By emphasizing diseases, programs, health systems, and health policies, this detailed revision helps readers understand the wide range of global public health issues and the various approaches nations adopt to deal with them. This is a book that reflects both the scope and depth of challenges in global health and the dynamic nature of the field. International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems and Policies, Second Edition explores the public health problems facing low- and middle-income countries today, and identifies their three greatest challenges: reproductive health, infectious disease, and nutrition. Containing case studies throughout and discussion questions at the end of each chapter, this book discusses emerging health systems, their regulation, financing, and management. With an emphasis on the role of agencies in promoting health, this title illustrates the importance of health on the economic development of a nation, and the reciprocal impact of development on health status. Chapters include:
You can view these excerpts here: Michael Merson, M.D., is the Anna M.R.
Lauder Professor of Public Health and the former Dean of Public
Health in the Yale School of Medicine, and Director of Yale
University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. A
medical epidemiologist, he worked for 17 years with the World Health
Organization (WHO), serving initially as Director of the Diarrheal
Diseases Control and Acute Respiratory Control Programs and then as
Executive Director of the Global Program on AIDS. Before joining
WHO, he was engaged in research on the etiology and epidemiology of
diarrheal diseases in the United States and abroad. More recently he
has written on global AIDS policy issues, which is his current major
area of interest. Dr. Merson is a member of the U.S. Institute of
Medicine and its Board on Global Health. He has served on numerous
review panels and advisory committees for the U.S. National
Institutes of Health, UNAIDS, World Bank and the Bill and Melinda
Gates and Kaiser Foundations. Anne Mills, MA, DHSA, PhD is Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has over 30 years’ experience in health-economics related research in developing countries, and has published widely in the fields of health economics and health systems including books on the role of government in health in developing countries, decentralization, the public private mix, and the economics of malaria. She founded, and is Head of, the Health Economics and Financing Programme, which has become one of the leading groups in the world developing and applying health economics’ theories and techniques to increase knowledge on how best to improve the equity and efficiency of developing country health systems. She has frequently acted as advisor to multilateral and bilateral agencies, including WHO. (information provided by the publisher) You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go to / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore |
