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Springer Handbook of Global Health 1st Editon 2021 Hardbound by Robin Haring, Ilona Kickbusch, Detlev Ganten, Matshidiso Moeti
Global health is a rapidly emerging discipline with a transformative potential for public policy and international development. Emphasizing transnational health issues, global health aims to improve health and achieve health equity for all people worldwide. Its multidisciplinary scope includes contributions from many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, including clinical medicine, public health, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, economics, public policy, law and ethics.This large reference offers up-to-date information and expertise across all aspects of global health and helps readers to achieve a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the topics, trends as well as the clinical, socioeconomic and environmental drivers impacting global health. As a fully comprehensive, state-of-the-art and continuously updated, living reference, the Handbook of Global Health is an important, dynamic resource to provide context for global health clinical care, organizational decision-making, and overall public policy on many levels. Health workers, physicians, economists, environmental and social scientists, trainees and medical students as well as professionals and practitioners will find this handbook of great value. Global Health - Definition, Principles & Drivers.- Globalization & Global Health - Impact, Trends & Consequences.- Urbanisation & Cities as Drivers of Global Health.- Aging & Global Health.- Cultural Diversity & Global Health.- Digital Transformation & Global Health.- Study Designs in Global Health Research.- Epidemiological Methods & Measures in Global Health Research.- Quantitative Methods in Global Health Research.- Qualitative Methods in Global Health Research.- Mixed-methods in Global Health Research.- Accountability & Aid Effectiveness Research in Global Health.- Global health project design, monitoring & evaluation.- Causal inference in global health epidemiology.- Evidence synthesis in global health epidemiology.- Disease surveillance & monitoring: Epidemic diagnosis & control.- Dynamics of disease occurence & transmission.- Epidemiological transition & changing pattern of disease.- Demographic approaches to population dynamics.- Population mortality & global causes of death - pattern & trends.- Global Migration & Population Health .- Population health dynamics & fertility: pattern, predictors & projections.- Global burden of CVD - prevalence, pattern & trends.- Global burden of COPD - prevalence, pattern & trends.- Global burden of Cancer - prevalence, pattern & trends.- Global burden of Alzheimer & other dementias.- Global burden of Diabetes Mellitus.- Global burden of Road injury.