Global Health de Michael Merson

Global Health

Michael Merson

Robert Black

Global Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, Fourth Edition brings together contributions from the world's leading authorities into a single comprehensive text. It thoroughly examines the wide range of global health challenges facing low and middle income countries today and the various approaches nations adopt to deal with them. These challenges include measurement of health status, infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, nutrition, reproductive health, global environmental health and complex emergencies.

The book also explores emerging health systems, their financing, and management, and the roles of nation states, international agencies, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations in promoting health.

The Fourth Edition offers 5 new chapters:
Global Health, Human Rights and Ethics
Public Health Infrastructure
Innovation, Technology and Design
International Trade and Health

Global Health Governance and Diplomacy (which is a replacement chapter for two previous chapters on Cooperation in Global Health and Globalization and Health)
In addition, all of the chapters have been updated according to emerging issues within the respective field.

The addition of the new chapters has expanded the depth of the textbook. There is now a greater emphasis on health and the economy, global health governance, environmental health, public health infrastructure, innovation in global health, and human rights.

Leading experts in their fields have been brought on to author the new chapters. For a few of the existing chapters, new authors were added to bring new levels of expertise.

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Michael H. Merson, MD is the Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health at Duke University. He joined the Duke faculty in November 2006 as the founding director of the Duke Global Health Institute and served in that role through 2017. In addition, he was Vice President and Vice Provost for Global Affairs from 2011-2018, and Vice Chancellor for Duke-National University of Singapore Affairs from 2010-2016. He has held leadership positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh, served as Director of the World Health Organization's Diarrheal and Acute Respiratory Control Programs and Global Program on AIDS, and was the first Dean of Public Health at Yale University. Dr. Merson's research and writings have been primarily on the etiology of diarrheal diseases in low- and middle-income countries, HIV prevention and policy and academic global health. He has served as an advisor to a number of international organizations and advisory bodies; is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine; and has received two honorary degrees and the U.S. Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal.