Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser
Preface
Part One: Introducing Global Health
1. What Is Global Health?, Peter Brown and Svea Closser
Section 1.1: Milestones in Global Health
2. The Broad Street Pump, Stephen Johnson
3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918, John Barry
4. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate
Smallpox, William Foege
5. A Pinch, a Fist, a Cup of Water: ORT in Bangladesh, Richard Hilts
6. "Science Will Always Win in the End": The Epidemiologist Who Proved that Smoking Causes Cancer, Anna Wagstaff and Richard Doll
7. Declaration of Alma Ata, World Health Organization
8.
AIDS in 2006 - Moving toward One World, One Hope?, Jim Kim and Paul Farmer
Section 1.2: Epidemiology and the Basic Methods of Global Health
9. Inside the Outbreaks, Mark Pendergrast
10. Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Section 1.3: Metrics
and the Burden of Disease
11. Using Evidence About "Best Buys" to Advance Global Health, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Lori Ashford
12. The Long Defeat, Tracy Kidder
13. Counting is Complicated, Adeola Oni-Orisan
Part Two: Ecological Determinants of Health
Section 2.1: Water
14.
Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health, Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross
15. Water, Worry, and Mental Health, Amber Wutich
16. What Went Wrong in Flint, The Natural Hazards Center
Section 2.2: Air
17. Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries, Nigel
Bruce, Rogelio Perez-Padilla, and Rachel Albalak
18. Tobacco Industry Interference: A Global Brief, World Health Organization
19. Climate Change and Global Health, George Luber
Section 2.3: Food
20. Clinical Medicine or Public Health? The History of Mortality Decline, Thomas
McKeown
21. The Nature of Child Malnutrition and Its Long-Term Implications, Rey Martorell
22. Statement to the Security Council on Missions to Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Kenya, Steven O'Brien
23. Hunger in the AIDS Economy of Central Mozambique, Ippolytos Kalofonos
24. A
Nutrition Paradox-Underweight and Obesity in Developing Countries, Benjamin Caballero
Part Three: Social Determinants of Health
Section 3.1: Health Inequalities and the Social Gradient
25. Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts, Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot
26.
Disease and Dying while Black: How Racism, Not Race, Gets under the Skin, Allan Goodman
Section 3.2: Sex and Reproduction
27. Why is HIV Prevalence So Severe in Southern Africa?, Daniel T. Halperin and Helen Epstein
28. Understanding HIV/AIDS in the African Context, Eileen Stillwaggon
and Larry Sawer
29. Female Genital Cutting: Between Marriage and Marketplace, Homa Hoodfar
30. Saving Mothers' Lives in Sri Lanka, Ruth Levine
Section 3.3: Violence
31. The Global Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women, K.M. Devries, J.Y.T. Mak, C. Garcia-Moreno, M.
Petzold, J.C. Child, G. Falder, S. Lim, L.J. Bacchus, R.E. Engell, L. Rosenfeld, C. Palitto, T. Vos, N. Abrahams, and C.H. Watts
32. War and the Public Health: An Overview, Barry Levy and Victor Sidel
33. Beyond Happy Endings, Peter Redfield
34. Structural Violence and Clinical
Medicine, Paul E. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee
Part Four: Interventions to Improve Health
Section 4.1: A History of Health Institutions and Programs
35. The Four 19th Century Cultural Roots of International and Global Health: A Model for Understanding Current
Policy Debates, Peter J. Brown
36. Coercion and Consent in Smallpox Eradication, Paul Greenough
37. Looking Back in Time from Ebola, Randall Packard
Section 4.2: Health Systems and Foreign Aid
38. A Heart for the Work, Claire Wendland
39. Turning the World Upside Down, Nigel
Crisp
40. Why We Must Provide Better Support for Pakistan's Female Frontline Health Workers, Svea Closser and Rashid Jooma
41. Are NGOs Undermining Health Systems in Mozambique?, James Pfeiffer
42. The Vital Case for Global Health Investments, Sten Vermund and Ann Kurth
43.
Treating Depression Where There are No Mental Health Professionals, Vikram Patel
44. Beyond Shamanism: The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Global Health Policy, Obijiofor Aginam
Section 4.3: Health Communication
45. Riding High on Taru Fever: Entertainment-Education
Broadcasts, Ground Mobilization, and Service Delivery in Rural India, Arvind Singhai
46. Managing Rumours and Misinformation in West Africa, Amzath Fassassi;
Ebola: Limitations of Correcting Misinformation, Clare Chandler, James Fairhead, Ann Kelly, Melissa Leach, Frederick Martineau,
Esther Mokuwa, Melissa Parker, Paul Richards, Annie Wilkinson, for the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
Section 4.4: Ethics, Projects, and Human Rights - The Future of Global Health
47. The Right to Health, World Health Organization and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on
Human Rights
48. Stop Trying to Save the World: Big Ideas are Destroying International Development, Michael Hobbs
49. Global Health: Your Life, Your Life Decisions, Your Moral Obligations, Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser
Glossary
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Peter J. Brown is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University.
Svea Closser is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College.
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