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| List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foundations of Global Health | |
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| Introduction to Global Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Global Health? | |
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| Why Should We Care About Global Health? | |
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| Major Global Health Challenges in the 21st Century | |
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| Under the Microscope: Millions of Lives at Stake in Global Health | |
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| Global Governance and Health | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Key Concepts in Global Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Determinants of Health | |
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| Under the Microscope: Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease | |
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| Population Health Assessment | |
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| Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| The Ecological Foundations of Global Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Environmental Health | |
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| Ecological Balance and Global Health | |
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| Drinking Water, the Environment, and Global Health | |
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| Under the Microscope: Corn-fed Agriculture and the Diseases of Globalization | |
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| Under the Microscope: The Negative Health Consequences of Bottled Water | |
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| Climate Change and Global Health | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Medical Aspects of Global Health | |
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| Global Health and Communicable Diseases | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction to Microbiology | |
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| Under the Microscope: Public Resistance to Vaccination Campaigns | |
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| Global Burden of Communicable Diseases | |
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| Antimicrobial Resistance | |
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| HIV/AIDS | |
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| Tuberculosis | |
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| Influenza | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Global Health and Noncommunicable Illnesses | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Global Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases | |
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| Cardiovascular Disease | |
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| Obesity and Overweight | |
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| Under the Microscope: Obesity and Excise Taxes on Sugar-sweetened Beverages | |
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| Tobacco Abuse | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| The International Relations of Global Health | |
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| Economic, Ethnic, and Gender Inequities in Global Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Economic Development and Territorially Based Inequities in Global Health | |
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| Under the Microscope: The Inequitable Effects of Natural Disasters | |
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| Poverty and Economic Inequities Across and Within States | |
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| Under the Microscope: Reflections on Global Health Aid to Developing Countries | |
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| Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Global Health | |
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| Under the Microscope: Reflections on Patient-Physician Language Discordance | |
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| Gender Inequities in Global Health | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Global Health and Security | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Global Health Challenges as Potential National Security Threats | |
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| Biological Warfare and Bioterrorism | |
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| The Health Costs of Intrastate and Interstate War | |
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| Under the Microscope: Disease and Death in the Shadow of War | |
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| Human Security and Health | |
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| The Securitization Debate in Global Health | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Global Health and Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Right to Health Under International Human Rights Law | |
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| Gendering the Human Right to Health: The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women | |
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| Health Rights Under International Humanitarian Law | |
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| Professional Codes of Ethics and the Human Right to Health | |
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| Conceptual and Cultural Challenges to the Human Right to Health | |
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| Under the Microscope: Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicine | |
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| Under the Microscope: Intercultural Communication in Global Health | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Promoting Global Health | |
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| Promoting Global Health from the Top Down: International Organizations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Range, Functions, and Powers of International Organizations in the Promotion of Global Health | |
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| World Health Organization | |
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| Under the Microscope: The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control | |
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| A Success Story: The Global Eradication of Smallpox | |
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| Millennium Development Goals | |
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| Global Health Promotion from the Top Down: Possibilities and Challenges | |
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| Under the Microscope: Women's Health Initiatives in the UN System | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Promoting Global Health from the Top Down: States | |
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| Introduction | |
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| States and the Promotion of Global Health | |
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| Health Care Systems | |
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| Comparing National Approaches to Health and Health Care | |
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| Under the Microscope: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the United States | |
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| Comparing Expenditures and Outcomes Across National Health Care Systems | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Promoting Global Health from the Bottom Up: Non-state Actors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Categories of Non-state Actors | |
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| Circumventing the State: Health Governance Without Government | |
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| Under the Microscope: Providing Clean Water to the Poor in Developing Countries | |
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| Non-governmental Organizations and Global Health Advocacy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |