Global Health: Print Textbooks

Global health and health transitions -- Measuring the global burden of disease -- Research and global health -- Socioeconomic determinants of health -- Child health -- Health of younger adults -- Noncommunicable diseases and aging -- The environmental context of health -- Control of infectious diseases -- Global infectious disease initiatives -- Global nutrition -- Global health payers and players -- Globalization and health -- Health, human rights, and humanitarian aid -- Global health progress and priorities

The principles and goals of global health -- Health determinants, measurements, and trends -- Health, education, poverty, and the economy -- Ethical and human rights concerns in global health -- An introduction to health systems -- Culture and health -- The environment and health -- Nutrition and global health -- Women's health -- Child health -- Communicable diseases -- Non-communicable diseases -- Unintentional injuries -- Natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies -- Working together to improve global health -- Science, technology, and global health -- Working in global health -- Profiles of global health actors

Global health : past, present and future -- The global burden of disease -- Epidemiology, biostatistics and surveillance -- The health of women/mothers and children -- Human trafficking -- Environmental health in the global context -- Nutrition -- Primary care in global health -- Malaria -- Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS -- Neglected tropical diseases -- Emerging diseases and antimicrobial resistance -- Injury and global health -- Surgical issues in global health -- War, catastrophes, displaced persons, refugees and terrorism -- Aging populations and chronic illness -- The global state of mental health -- Global health communications, social marketing and emerging -- Communication technologies -- Economics and global health -- Health systems, management and organization in low- and middle-income -- Countries -- Global health ethics -- Education and careers in global health

Eradicating smallpox -- Preventing HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections in Thailand -- Controlling tuberculosis in China -- Reducing child mortality through vitamin A in Nepal -- Eliminating polio in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Saving mothers' lives in Sri Lanka -- Controlling onchocerciasis (river blindness) in sub-Saharan Africa -- Preventing diarrheal deaths in Egypt -- Improving the health of the poor in Mexico -- Controlling trachoma in Morocco -- Reducing guinea worm in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa -- Controlling chagas disease in the Southern cone of South America -- Reducing fertility in Bangladesh -- Curbing tobacco use in Poland -- Preventing iodine deficiency disease in China -- Preventing neural-tube defects in Chile -- Eliminating measles in Southern Africa -- Preventing dental caries in Jamacia -- Treating cataracts in India -- Preventing hib disease in Chile and the Gambia.

Perceptions of ethnophysiology matter -- Representations of illness causality and vectors that transmit disease -- Why is research on local illness categories important? -- Perceptions of pharmaceuticals and quality of care -- Representations that frame health and development policy -- Representations of health status and social formations -- NGOs, social capital, and the politics of the possible -- Toward a next generation of social science research in global health.

Overview of infectious diseases and analytical framework -- Global health governance in the twentieth century -- Disease containment : surveillance systems, emergency responses, and transborder regulations -- Disease control : transformation of health assistance programs -- Disease cures : international patent law and access to essential medicines -- Health and global governance : concluding perspectives.

1. Introduction: The Forces Driving and Embodied Within a New Field of Equity in Healthy

Part 1: New Theory, Paradigms, and Perspectives. --2. Challenges in Eliminating Health Disparities -- 3. Toward Evidence-Based and Culturally Appropriate Models for Reducing Global Health Disparities: An Africanist Perspective -- 4. New Paradigms for Inclusive Health Care: Toward Individual Patient and Population Health.

Part 2: New Procedures and Policies - Implications for Funders, Researchers, and Policy Makers. -- 5. What Types of Public Health Proposals Should Agencies Be Funding and What Types of Evidence Should Matter?: Scientific and Ethical Considerations -- 6. Income-Related Health Disparity and its Determinants in New York State: Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Comparisons -- 7. Perspectives on Mechanisms of Racial Disparities in Hypertension -- 8. Incessant Displacement and Health Disparities

Part 3: The Legacy and Role of Racism - Implications and Recommendations for Research and Practice -- 9. Strategies for Reducing Disparities in African Americans' Receipt and Use of Mental Health Services -- 10. Genetics or Social Forces? Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality -- 11. A Psychosocial Model of Resilience Theory and Research: A Recommended Paradigm for Studying African Americans' Beliefs and Practices Toward Colon Cancer Screening

Part 4: Collaborations, Partnerships, and Community-Based Participatory Research -- 12. Eliminating Disparities in Health and Disease Outcomes: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- 13. Grant-Writing for Community-Based Health Disparities Research and Services: The Role Academic/Community Partnerships -- 14. Addressing Cardiovascular Health Disparities of Chinese Immigrants in New York City: A Case Study of the Chinese-American Healthy Heart Coalition -- 15. HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction With Couples: Implications For Reducing Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS Prevention

Part 5: New Internet Technology - Achieving Wide Dissemination and Global Research -- 16. Using New Media to Improve Learning: Multimedia Connect for HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction and the Triangle Initiative -- 17. A Role for Health Informatics and Information Technology (HIIT): Shaping a Global Research Agenda to Eliminate Health Disparities -- 18. An Online Multimedia Peer Education Smoking Cessation Program for Korean Youth: A Film Script Contest for Stories on Quitting Smoking

Part 6: Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators -- 19. Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa: Integrating African Healing Wisdom and Evidence-Based Behavior Change Strategies -- 20. The Social Education and Health Advocacy Training (SEHAT) Project: Training Peer Educators in Indian Prisons to Increase Health Awareness and Preventive Behavior for HIV -- 21. Training Peer Educators, Black MSM Leadership, and Partners for Ethnographic Community-Based Participatory Research

Part 7: Closing Gaps in Health for Special Populations -- 22. Recommendations for Researchers and Clinicians Working at the Intersection of the HIV/AIDS and Methamphetamine Epidemics With MSM -- 23. Lesbian and Bisexual Women of Color, Racism, Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Health: A Recommended Intervention and Research Agenda -- 24. Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Gay-Related Stress and Health Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth: Examining a Prevalent Hypothesis -- 25. Health Disparities and People With Disabilities

Part 8: Closing the Education and Health Gaps: Addressing Dual Inter-Related Disparities Through Effective Engagement -- 26. Classroom-Based Interventions to Reduce Academic Disparities Between Low-Income and High-Income Students -- 27. Cultivating Academic Ability Through Exposure to Supplementary Education -- 28. A Supplementary Education Model Rooted in an Academic, Community, and Faith-Based Coalition: Closing the Education and Health Gaps -- 29. So No Child Is Left Behind: A Peer Mentoring/Tutoring Program for At-Risk Urban Youth Attending a College Preparatory High School -- 30. A Model for Comprehensive Community-Wide Asthma Education Using Partnerships and the Public School Curriculum -- 31. Conclusion: The Future of the Field of Equity in Health