Global Population Health: a Primer

Bringing his over 40 years experience in global health practice and education, Richard Skolnik designed his latest text, Global Population Health: A Primer to provide a brief overview of global health to a wide range of health administration and clinical audiences. Beginning with a concise explanation of the importance of global health, this brief and engaging text moves on to examine a number of the most important global health issues and their economic and social consequences, before discussing some of the steps that can be taken to address these concerns in cost-effective, fair, doable, and sustainable ways.Key Features:- Excellent overview of global health that focuses on readers on gaining the knowledge to address five key questions from an evidence-based and interdisciplinary perspective.- Concise length - only 150 pages - makes this text an easy and affordable supplement for a variety of courses.- Written for a wide range of health professionals, from doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other clinical health professionals to health administrators and more.- Navigate eBook access (included with the print text) provides online or offline access from a computer, tablet or mobile device.