Global Health Studies

Louise Warwick-Booth is Reader in Health Promotion and Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University. Ruth Cross is Course Director in Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University. Together, they are authors (with Diane Lowcock) of Contemporary Health Studies: An Introduction (Polity, 2012).

• Detailed Contents vi Tables and Boxes x Learning Tasks and Case Studies xii Abbreviations xivIntroduction 11 Global Patterns of Disease 72 Global Health: An Unequal World 293 The Wider Determinants of Global Health 484 Global Health Systems 685 Global Health Governance 886 Policies for Health 1117 Global Health Protests 1308 Contemporary Challenges in Global Health 150References 169Index 191

"This is an excellent reference book for students undertaking courses in global health. It introduces them to the many diverse issues that lie under the umbrella of global health studies, while encouraging them to think critically by including a set of intermittent questions aimed at the reader." David McCoy, Queen Mary University of London "Warwick-Booth and Cross examine global health from a perspective of health equity and critical human rights. This welcome and refreshing departure challenges both learners and researchers to develop innovations for a postcolonial world. With activities to facilitate deep learning and problem solving, this text makes a valuable contribution to the curriculum of service providers and prepares students to be globally responsible citizens."Karline Wilson-Mitchell, Ryerson University