PHA-Exch> New textbook on Intl Hlth

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Timothy Holtz tholtz at igc.org

Oxford University Press has just published:

Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World
by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy H. Holtz
(it is the revised 3rd edition of the well-known “Basch” textbook of
international health)

The text is both an international health primer and offers a critical
political economy perspective on global/international health, relating to
many
of the themes discussed on this listserve.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
2 The Historical Origins of Modern International Health
3 International Health Agencies, Activities, and Other Actors
4 The Political Economy of Health and Development
5 What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know, and Why it Matters? Data on
Health
6 Epidemiologic Profiles of Global Health and Disease
7 Societal Determinants of Health and Social Inequalities in Health
8 Health under Crisis
9 Globalization, Trade, Work, and Health
10 Health and the Environment
11 Health Economics and the Economics of Health
12 Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems
13 Toward Healthy Societies: From Ideas to Action
14 Doing International Health

Advance Praise:

“I highly recommend this textbook to students and professionals of
international health, as well as to anyone who is interested in the
ingredients of human health and well-being in an international context.”
>From the Foreword by Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Mpilo Tutu

“The Textbook of International Health is essential reading for anyone
working in international health. Written in a fluid and accessible
narrative (free of academic baroqueness), this text should become a
point of reference not only for academics but for professionals and
nonprofessionals working in the growing area of international health."
Vincent Navarro, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, The Johns
Hopkins University, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Health
Services

"Eminently readable, even captivating, this book presents everything needed
to understand international health, even how to engage in it. Most
important, its political economy perspective is unique and important
in the context of the newly-recognized societal influences on health."
Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, University Distinguished Professor, The
Johns Hopkins University

Also note the publication by OUP of a companion text, The Practice
of International Health, by Perlman and Roy.

For a discount flyer or information on how to order a desk copy,
please email: *highered.us at oup.com*
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