Textbook of Global Health

[P]rovides an important focus on the political economy of health and highlights the importance of a social-justice approach, incorporating the social and political economies of LMICs, to building healthy societies. * Lancet Global Health *
A monumental work for health justice. Textbook of Global Health [...] must be made compulsory reading in the training of all public health workers. * Economic & Political Weekly *
Much more than a textbook: an indispensable and exhaustively documented desk reference that belongs in the library of every global health student, researcher, and practitioner. * American Journal of Public Health *
A deep, comprehensive, and eclectic work for students, professionals, and diplomats who want to confront the current dilemmas of global health. It offers readers the pleasure of frequent consultation, as I have done since it fell into my hands a few weeks ago. * Ciência & Saúde Coletiva *
Highly integrated, interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and unique; a serious and essential contribution to teaching and learning global health. It is refreshing and invigorating to see a text engage with the contradictions of its subject with such rigor and honesty. * Lori Hanson, Canadian Medical Education Journal *
Highly recommended. An incredible resource for educators, researchers and practitioners concerned with situating their work in a wider global reality. * South African Medical Journal *
This book provides a forward-looking, highly exhaustive, up-to-date and balanced analysis over the unsolved issues and gaps still impairing equitable access to global health on a world scale. * Daniele Dionisio, PEAH *
This textbook [...] shows we can generate promising change if we work together. * Mary Travis Bassett, Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene *
Helping to make sense of complexity, this textbook offers sobering and sound political analysis of the global health arena. * Graça Machel, Board Chair, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health: UN Secretary General Sustainable Development Goals Advocate; Founder, Graça Machel Trust *
A densely packed treatise on the history, influences, philosophies, and future of global health. Fills an important gap in the training and experience of most clinicians ... [I]t belongs at every institutional program on global health, whether the focus is clinical, policy, or public health * Family Medicine *
For the thoughtful undergraduate or graduate student interested in understanding the complex political, social, and environmental drivers of health disparities worldwide, this is for you. In fact, this insightful, well-researched, comprehensive textbook should be required reading for anyone working in global health. * Natasha Hochberg, Clinical Infectious Diseases *
This is a must read for those seeking to understand the structural factors, arrangements and rules generating poor health and inequities at home and across the globe. * Peter Noone, Occupational Medicine *
The book, dedicated to 'all those rocking the boat for health and social justice across the world', dedicates comprehensive sections to describe the origins and history of international and Global Health, and the political, economical, epidemiological and biomedical determinants of health not only for individuals but more importantly in populations. This state-of-the-art book remains an authoritative source for young graduates but will also satisfy advanced scholars and Global Health professionals, and is guaranteed to be best value for money. * Quique Bassat, Chief Editor, Journal of Tropical Paediatrics *
Helping to make sense of complexity, this textbook offers sobering and sound political analysis of the global health arena. * Graça Machel, Board Chair, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health: UN Secretary General Sustainable Development Goals Advocate; Founder, Graça Machel Trust *
In this fourth edition, the authors paint a comprehensive picture of contemporary global health using an analytical framework grounded in political economy. Historical perspectives throughout the book provide a background for a better understanding of where we are today and how we got there, making the narrative interesting and accessible ... The Textbook of Global Health is relevant to all interested or working in global health worldwide * Mieke L van Driel, Medical Journal of Australia *
Highly recommended. An incredible resource for educators, researchers and practitioners concerned with situating their work in a wider global reality. * South African Medical Journal *
I find it stunning that [the] authors ... have produced a text so dense and comprehensive which is yet so eminently readable. The fruits of their labors, clearly resulting from exhaustive time and effort devoted to research and study, provide clear and convincing expert analysis of how we have arrived at the current state of international public health. * Jules R. Duval, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine *
A deep, comprehensive, and eclectic work for students, professionals, and diplomats who want to confront the current dilemmas of global health. It offers readers the pleasure of frequent consultation, as I have done since it fell into my hands a few weeks ago. * Science and Collective Health, Brazil *
Emminently 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, Johns Hopkins University *
The book provides excellent historic insight into international health. Very powerful observations result from the orientation to infrastructure and economics. The content builds upon traditional issues such as environmental to healthcare systems, implementation, and working in international health....The book is an appropriate consideration for an introductory text on international health. * Doody's *
With its all-encompassing view, clear and rich in humanist thinking and social and human commitment, this book is a stimulating contribution to all health and diplomacy professionals engaged in these new and fascinating domains of International Relations that make us more capable of changing the world into a better place to live. * Paulo M. Buss, Center for Global Health, Fiocruz National School of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, as reviewed in Journal of Public Health Policy *
I found it to be a clear, comprehensive introduction to public health's major concepts... Students praised the text's comprehensive nature: as many noted, it answered most questions they had about specific concepts, and it was extremely useful as a reference. They valued its readability and noted approvingly that it is 'written in a way that doesn't talk down to us.' They also appreciated the key questions and learning points in each chapter, which helped them focus on what was most important within the huge amount of information this book presents. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
This is a unique book. There is probably no other written work out there available to students and professionals that focuses on health problems prevalent on a global scale, and discusses available solutions... This book has a wealth of data for decision-making committees. * Biz India *
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 non-professionals working in the growing area of international health. * Vincent Navarro, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Health Services *