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• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• The Authors
• Introduction: An Overview of Global Health
• 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
• Communities and Health
• National Policies and Health
• 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
• Further Reading
• References
• 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
• Further Reading
• References
• 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
• Further Reading
• References
• CHAPTER 4: Aid
• Different Types of Aid
• The Aid Controversy
• Models of Global Aid for Public Health
• Argument: Aid Is Harmful
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Official Direct Assistance
• 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
• Further Reading
• References
• 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
• Health Care Delivery in China
• Health Care Delivery in Kerala
• Pharmaceutical Spending
• What Makes Us Healthy?
• Following the Money
• Review: Elements of a Health System
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• CHAPTER 6: Social Policy and Global Health
• How Policies Are Made
• Identifying the Problem
• Coming Up with Proposed Solutions
• Evaluating Your Policies or Program
• Political Economy and Health
• Political Economy and Health in Low-Income Countries
• The Urban-Rural Divide
• Legacy of Colonialism?
• Democratic Socialist States in Low-Income Countries
• Authoritarian States in Low-Income Countries
• Lessons for Health-Optimizing Social Policies
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• CHAPTER 7: A Closer Look at Three Political Economies: China, Kerala, and Chile
• China: Sustainable State of Development?
• The Health Effects of the Great Leap Forward
• The Health Effects of the Cultural Revolution
• The Public Health Effects of Tiananmen and Market Reforms
• Kerala: Experiments with Radical Decentralization
• Chile: A Precarious Third Way
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• CHAPTER 8: Global Governance and Health
• The World Health Organization
• The World Trade Organization
• An Evolution of Global Governance
• The Promise of Peace
• Can Money and Scissors Save the Day?
• Democracy in Governance
• A New Era of Health and Democracy
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• 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?
• Pathways Between Poverty and Health
• Poverty in Less-Developed Nations
• Countries That Grow Too Much
• Poverty and Health Among Wealthy Nations
• The Role of Inequality?
• The Complexities of Poverty
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• CHAPTER 10: The Physical Environment and Disease
• Infectious Disease and Development
• Diarrhea
• Intestinal Parasites
• Malaria and Other Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
• Air Pollution and Health
• Outer-Ring Development and Health
• Climate Change and Health
• Water and Health
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• CHAPTER 11: The Social Environment and Disease
• The Ultimate Trifecta: Race, Class, and Gender
• Social Class
• Race
• Gender and Health
• The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
• HIV—A Brief History
• Why Some Countries Have Little HIV and Others Have a Lot
• HIV as a Chronic Disease
• Prevention and Treatment
• Tuberculosis
• Prevention and Treatment
• Social Networks and Chronic Disease
• Public Health Advertising
• Individual Risk Behaviors, Urban Planning, and Health
• Attempts at More Comprehensive Approaches
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• 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
• The Case of the Niger Delta
• Natural Resources and Civil War
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• CHAPTER 13: Frontiers in Global Health
• The Many Levels of Health
• Tidings, Good or Bad, Come in Clusters
• Working with the System
• Applying Systems Theory Incrementally
• A Rise in Targeted Social Policy Interventions
• Conditional Cash Transfers
• Bolstering Early Childhood Education
• Innovations in Administration and Governance
• Lessons on Social Policy Interventions
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Further Reading
• References
• Index