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International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems and Polices

by: Merson, Michael H.; Black, Robert E.; Mills, Anne J., Ph.D.

International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems and Polices

by: Merson, Michael H.; Black, Robert E.; Mills, Anne J., Ph.D.

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9780834212282
ISBN 10:
0834212285
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/01/2000
Publisher: JONES & BARTLETT PUB
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Summary

Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Addresses public health problems and challenges facing low- and middle-income countries. Emphasizes disease, programs, health systems, and health policies, and reflects the scope and depth of challenges in global health promotion. Includes case studies and examples.

Contributors

Foreword

xiii

Sir George Alleyne

Introduction

xvii

Michael H. Merson

Robert E. Black

Anne J. Mills

Acknowledgments

xxxi

Disease Burden Measurement and Trends

(52)

Adnan Ali Hyder

Richard H. Morrow

Reasons and Approaches for Measuring Health and Disease

(8)

Methods and Indicators of Disease Burden

(25)

Comparisons and Trends in Disease Burden

(15)

Conclusion

(1)

Discussion Questions

(2)

Culture, Behavior, and Health

(26)

Susan C. Scrimshaw

Basic Concepts from Medical Anthropology

(3)

Cultural Views of Health, Illness, and Healers

(8)

Theories of Health Behavior and Behavior Change

(5)

Methodologies for Understanding Culture and Behavior

(6)

Conclusion

(1)

Discussion Questions

(4)

Reproductive Health

(60)

Jane Menken

M. Omar Rahman

Demographic Trends and Fertility Determinants

(13)

Family Planning Programs

(18)

Impact of Reproductive Patterns on the Health of Children

111

(5)

Impact of Reproductive Patterns on the Health of Women

116

(14)

Conclusion

130

(1)

Discussion Questions

131

(8)

Infectious Diseases

139

(68)

Arthur L. Reingold

Christina R. Phares

Overview

139

(1)

Control of Infectious Diseases

140

(1)

Childhood Vaccine Preventable Diseases: The Expanded Program of Immunizations

141

(10)

Enteric Infections and Acute Respiratory Infections

151

(8)

Bacterial Meningitis

159

(5)

Mycobacterial Infections

164

(5)

Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS

169

(7)

Viral Hepatitis

176

(5)

Malaria and Other Arthropod-borne Diseases

181

(6)

Helminthiases

187

(4)

Zoonoses

191

(3)

Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

194

(4)

Infectious Causes of Blindness

198

(2)

Conclusion

200

(1)

Discussion Questions

201

(6)

Nutrition

207

(86)

Keith P. West, Jr.

Benjamin Caballero

Robert E. Black

The Nutritional Spectrum

208

(1)

Undernutrition

209

(15)

Protein-Energy Malnutrition

224

(6)

Micronutrient Deficiencies

230

(28)

Diet and Undernutrition

258

(8)

Undernutrition among Older Persons

266

(1)

The Nutrition Transition

266

(2)

Conclusion

268

(2)

Discussion Questions

270

(23)

Chronic Diseases and Injury

293

(38)

David V. McQueen

Matthew T. McKenna

David A. Sleet

Recent Views on the Burden of Chronic Diseases and Injury

293

(2)

Definitions of Terms

295

(1)

Major Social, Economic, and Demographic Trends

296

(2)

Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases and Injury

298

(20)

Epidemiology of Principal Behavorial Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases

318

(4)

Special Problems and Issues for Chronic Diseases and Injury in the Global Context

322

(2)

Conclusion

324

(2)

Discussion Questions

326

(5)

Mental Health

331

(48)

Mitchell G. Weiss

Alex Cohen

Leon Eisenberg

Burden of Mental Disorders

331

(4)

Major Mental Disorders and Associated Problems

335

(12)

Classification and Assessment of Mental Disorders

347

(9)

Historical, Environmental, and Social Contexts

356

(10)

Mental Health Policies and Programs for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

366

(4)

Conclusion

370

(2)

Discussion Questions

372

(7)

Environmental Health

379

(60)

Anthony J. McMichael

Tord Kjellstrom

Kirk R. Smith

Definition and Scope of Environment

379

(1)

Scale and Distribution of Environmental Risks to Health

380

(1)

Environment: Encompassing Both ``Hazard'' and ``Habitat''

381

(2)

Environmental Health Research, Risk Assessment, and Monitoring

383

(21)

Household Exposures

404

(3)

The Occupational Environment

407

(6)

Community-Level Exposures

413

(9)

Regional Exposures: Transboundary Problems

422

(3)

Global Environmental Change and Population Health

425

(5)

Pathways to the Future in an Unequal World

430

(3)

Conclusion

433

(1)

Discussion Questions

434

(5)

Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

439

(76)

Michael J. Toole

Ronald J. Waldman

Anthony B. Zwi

Direct Public Health Impact of War

442

(5)

Indirect Public Health Impact of Civil Conflict

447

(10)

Specific Health Outcomes

457

(15)

Prevention and Mitigation of CHEs

472

(3)

Responses to CHE

475

(24)

Role of International, National, and Nongovernmental Organizations

499

(2)

Rehabilitation, Repatriation, and Recovery

501

(4)

Development of Human Resources

505

(1)

Current Issues

506

(3)

Conclusion

509

(1)

Discussion Questions

510

(5)

The Design of Health Systems

515

(44)

Anne J. Mills

M. Kent Ranson

Conceptual Maps of the Health System

516

(4)

Historical Development of Health Systems

520

(3)

The Role of the State

523

(3)

Regulation

526

(4)

Financing

530

(9)

Resource Allocation

539

(6)

Provision of Services

545

(2)

Performance of Different Types of Systems

547

(2)

Health System Reform

549

(5)

Conclusion

554

(1)

Discussion Questions

555

(4)

Health Systems Management

559

(58)

William A. Reinke

Management Framework

559

(4)

Organization Structure and Relations

563

(9)

Human Resources Management

572

(9)

Physical Resources Management

581

(4)

Financial Management

585

(9)

Performance Budgeting

594

(4)

General Management Methods

598

(14)

Conclusion

612

(1)

Discussion Questions

613

(4)

Health and the Economy

617

(50)

Jennifer Prah Ruger

Dean T. Jamison

David E. Bloom

Health and Economic Development

618

(17)

Health Systems and Economic Outcomes

635

(23)

Conclusion

658

(2)

Discussion Questions

660

(7)

Global Cooperation in International Public Health

667

(34)

Gill Walt

The Policy Framework

667

(2)

Who Are the Actors in International Health?

669

(5)

Why Do States Cooperate?

674

(4)

How Do States Cooperate?

678

(2)

The Changing Role of International Cooperation: Vertical Representation to Horizontal Participation

680

(10)

Vertical Representation to Horizontal Participation: The Implications for Health Policy

690

(5)

Conclusion

695

(2)

Discussion Questions

697

(4)

Global Influences and Global Responses: International Health at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

701

(38)

Ilona Kickbusch

Kent Buse

The Driving Forces of Change

702

(1)

Putting Health on the Global Agenda

703

(3)

The Globalization of Disease

706

(5)

International Cooperation for Health

711

(3)

The New Realities: Governance beyond Governments

714

(3)

The New Actors in the Global Health Arena

717

(4)

The Move toward Democratic and Legitimate Global Health Governance

721

(2)

The Global Health Value Base

723

(5)

A Reorientation of Public Health Practice

728

(4)

Conclusion

732

(1)

Discussion Questions

733

(6)

Acronyms

739

(6)

Sources

745

(12)

Index

757

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