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Global Health : Geographical Connections /
A comprehensive and authoritative examination of the key issues relating to global health. Written by a leading health geographer with an international reputation, the book offers a critical and rigorous analysis of contemporary challenges facing world health.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle Upon Tyne :
Agenda Publishing,
2023.
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| Colección: | Agenda Human Geographies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- 1 Introduction
- Geographies of health
- Political ecology and health
- Globalization
- Global health and global health geographies
- Decolonizing geography and global health
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 2 Unequal health I: determinants and regional examples
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Income inequality and health
- Health inequalities in the Global South: the big picture
- Health inequalities: regional canvases
- Brazil
- India
- China
- Mozambique
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 3 Unequal health II: key themes
- Geographies of inequalities in non-communicable diseases
- Geographies of gender inequality
- Geographies of Indigenous health inequalities
- Geographies of urban health inequalities
- Geographies of mental health inequalities
- Inequalities in wellbeing
- Geographies of inequalities in the provision of, and access to, health services
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 4 Governing global health
- Governance
- A world of organizations
- Public-private partnerships
- Non-governmental organizations
- Philanthropy or "philanthrocapitalism"?
- Social movements
- Global health security: what is it and who is it for?
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 5 People on the move: the dispossessed and their health and wellbeing
- The scale of forced displacement
- The journey
- The health of those internally displaced
- The health of those living in refugee camps
- Refugee health in places of safety
- The health of migrant domestic workers
- Slave trades and sex trafficking
- Natural hazards and the health of those displaced
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 6 Materials on the move: out of the ground, and across the globe
- Mineral extraction and global health
- Waste assemblages
- Plastics on the move
- E-waste on the move
- Arms on the move
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 7 Airs, waters and places
- The political economy of pollution
- Monitoring air quality across the globe
- Air pollution and health impacts
- Monitoring water security and quality
- Water quality and health effects
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 8 Infections on the move
- Geographic data collection and analysis for infections "on the move"
- Geographies of neglected tropical diseases
- Political ecologies of mosquito-borne diseases
- Networked disease I: Ebola
- Networked disease II: influenza viruses and SARS
- The unequal geographies of Covid-19: pandemic or syndemic?
- Concluding remarks
- Further reading
- 9 Climate change and global health
- Heat-related mortality
- Climate change and infectious disease
- Climate change, food security and nutrition
- Climate change and impacts on the mental health of Indigenous peoples