<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Timothy Holtz</b> <a href="mailto:tholtz@igc.org">tholtz@igc.org</a><br></span>
<div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><br></span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Oxford University Press has just published:<br><br>Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World<br>
by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy H. Holtz<br>(it is the revised 3rd edition of the well-known “Basch” textbook of international health)<br><br>The text is both an international health primer and offers a critical<br>
political economy perspective on global/international health, relating to many<br>of the themes discussed on this listserve.<br><br>Table of Contents:<br><br>1 Introduction<br>2 The Historical Origins of Modern International Health<br>
3 International Health Agencies, Activities, and Other Actors<br>4 The Political Economy of Health and Development<br>5 What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know, and Why it Matters? Data on<br>Health<br>6 Epidemiologic Profiles of Global Health and Disease<br>
7 Societal Determinants of Health and Social Inequalities in Health<br>8 Health under Crisis<br>9 Globalization, Trade, Work, and Health<br>10 Health and the Environment<br>11 Health Economics and the Economics of Health<br>
12 Understanding and Organizing Health Care Systems<br>13 Toward Healthy Societies: From Ideas to Action<br>14 Doing International Health<br><br>Advance Praise:<br><br>“I highly recommend this textbook to students and professionals of<br>
international health, as well as to anyone who is interested in the<br>ingredients of human health and well-being in an international context.”<br>From the Foreword by Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Mpilo Tutu<br><br>“The Textbook of International Health is essential reading for anyone<br>
working in international health. Written in a fluid and accessible<br>narrative (free of academic baroqueness), this text should become a<br>point of reference not only for academics but for professionals and<br>nonprofessionals working in the growing area of international health."<br>
Vincent Navarro, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, The Johns<br>Hopkins University, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Health<br>Services<br><br>"Eminently readable, even captivating, this book presents everything needed<br>
to understand international health, even how to engage in it. Most<br>important, its political economy perspective is unique and important<br>in the context of the newly-recognized societal influences on health."<br>
Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, University Distinguished Professor, The<br>Johns Hopkins University<br><br>Also note the publication by OUP of a companion text, The Practice<br>of International Health, by Perlman and Roy.<br>
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