1st ed. 2020 Edition
by Korydon H. Smith (Editor), Pavani Kalluri Ram (Editor)
This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about
the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary
strategies for solving them. Once the purview of public health,
medicine, and nursing, global health is now an interdisciplinary
endeavor that relies on expertise from anthropology to urban planning,
economics to political science, geography to engineering. Scholars and
practitioners in the health sciences are seeking knowledge from a wider
array of fields while, simultaneously, students across majors have a
growing interest in humanitarian issues and are pursuing knowledge and
skills for impacting well-being across geographic and disciplinary
borders.
Using a highly practical approach and illustrative case
studies, each chapter of this edited volume frames a particular problem
and illustrates how interdisciplinary problem-solving can address the
greatest challenges in global health today. In doing so, each chapter
spurs critical and creative thinking about emergent and future problems.
Topics explored among the chapters include:
- Transforming health and well-being for refugees and their communities
- Governing to deliver safe and affordable water
- The global crisis of antimicrobial resistance
- Low-tech, high-impact interventions to prevent neonatal mortality
- Communicating taboo health subjects
- Alternative housing delivery for slum upgrades
Transforming Global Health: Interdisciplinary Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies is
a vital and timely compendium for any reader invested in improving
global health equity. It will find an audience with researchers,
practitioners, policymakers, and program implementers, as well as
undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the fields of global
health, public health, and the health sciences.
