Introduction to Global Health Promotion (Jossey-Bass Public Health)

About this book

Introduction to Global Health Promotion addresses a breadth and depth of public health topics that students and emerging professionals in the field must understand as the worlds burden of disease changes with non-communicable diseases on the rise in low- and middle-income countries as their middle class populations grow. Now more than ever we need to provide health advocacy and intervention to prevent predict and address emerging global health issues. This new text from the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) prepares readers with thorough and thoughtful chapters on global health promotion theories best practices and perspectives on the future of the field from the individual to the global level. The worlds biggest health care challengesincluding HIV malaria heart disease smoking and violence among othersare explored in detail in Introduction to Global Health Promotion. The state of the science including the latest empirical data is distilled into 19 chapters that update readers on the complex issues surrounding a variety of illnesses and conditions and disease epidemics and individual social institutional and governmental barriers to preventing them. Expert authors bring to the fore human rights issues new uses of technology and practical application of theory. These perspectives along with the books multidisciplinary approach serve to create a well-rounded understanding of global health today. Learn more from the Editors of Introduction to Global Health Promotion here.