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• Title
• Copyright
• Figures and Tables
• Figures
• Tables
• The Authors
• Introduction: An Overview of Global Health
• Why a Public Health Perspective?
• The Global Health Landscape
• About the Book
• Acknowledgments
• Key Terms
• PART ONE: The Basics of Global Health
• CHAPTER 1: A Very Brief History of Global Health Policy
• Health and Public Policy through the Twentieth Century
• The Age of Global Health Policy
• The Fall of Global Governance
• The Millennium Development Goals
• An Alternative History
• Love and Health in Modern Times
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 2: Case Studies in Development and Health
• The Puzzle of “Good” Development for Health
• The Next Superpowers? Taking a Closer Look at Middle-Income Countries
• Growth-Mediated Models
• Support-Led Models
• Toward a Happy Medium?
• China’s Explosive Growth
• Kerala’s Quality of Life
• Chile Aims for a Balancing Act
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• PART TWO: Global Health and the Art of Policy Making
• CHAPTER 3: The Global Burden of Disease
• Who Dies Where?
• Counting Global Deaths (with an Eye toward Saving Lives)
• Dead Children Make for Bad Statistics
• The Health Effects of Evil Genies
• Quantifying the Global Burden of Disease
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 4: Aid
• Different Types of Aid
• The Aid Controversy
• Models of Global Aid for Public Health
• Argument: Aid Is Harmful
• Argument: Aid Is Poorly Managed
• Argument: Aid Is Misused
• Argument: “Aid” Further Consolidates Power for the Powerful
• Argument: All Is Well, Just Send More
• Argument: We Are Making Progress, but the Hurdles Are High
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 5: Health Systems
• Health Care Delivery Systems
• Health Care Payments
• Health Care Markets
• Health Care Delivery Systems in High-Income Countries
• Health Care Delivery Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
• Pharmaceutical Spending
• What Makes Us Healthy?
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 6: Social Policy and Global Health
• How Policies Are Made
• Political Economy and Health
• Lessons for Health-Optimizing Social Policies
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 7: A Closer Look at Three Political Economies: China, Kerala, and Chile
• China: Sustainable State of Development?
• Kerala: Experiments with Radical Decentralization
• Chile: A Precarious Third Way
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 8: Global Governance and Health
• The World Health Organization
• The World Trade Organization
• An Evolution of Global Governance
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• PART THREE: Key Challenges in Global Health
• CHAPTER 9: Poverty
• Income and Health across Nations
• Definitions of Poverty
• Why Do We Worry about Poverty in Public Health?
• Poverty in Less-Developed Nations
• Poverty and Health among Wealthy Nations
• The Complexities of Poverty
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 10: The Physical Environment and Disease
• Infectious Disease and Development
• Malaria and Other Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
• Air Pollution and Health
• Outer-Ring Development and Health
• Climate Change and Health
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 11: The Social Environment and Disease
• The Ultimate Trifecta: Race, Class, and Gender
• The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
• Tuberculosis
• Social Networks and Chronic Disease
• Individual Risk Behaviors, Urban Planning, and Health
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 12: Globalization, Internal Conflict, and the Resource Curse
• Globalization and Health
• Spillover Effects of Poor Global Governance
• Civil Conflict as a Public Health Problem
• Resource Curses and Civil Conflict
• Natural Resources and Civil War
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• CHAPTER 13: Frontiers in Global Health
• The Many Levels of Health
• Tidings, Good or Bad, Come in Clusters
• Working with the System
• A Rise in Targeted Social Policy Interventions
• Innovations in Administration and Governance
• Lessons on Social Policy Interventions
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Index
• End User License Agreement