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1	RX for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge more books like this by Philip J Hilts add to wishlist In this companion to October's six-part PBS series "Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, New York Times" health and science reporter Hilts takes a gripping journey around the globe to the hot spots of disease fighting in the worldwide battle to defeat the threat of new and resurgent outbreaks. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved more books like this by Ruth Levine, What Works Working Group add to wishlist see all copies from $49.56! new only from $50.52! \| first editions
3	Global Health Care: Issues and Policies more books like this by Carol Holtz add to wishlist see all copies from $43.91! new only from $60.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies more books like this by Michael H Merson, M.D. add to wishlist Now there is a textbook that reflects both the scope and depth of challenges in global health and the dynamic nature of the field. By emphasizing diseases, programs, health systems, and health policies, "International Public Health" helps students understand the wide range of global public health issues and the various approaches nations adopt to ... see all copies from $5.96! new only from $54.50! \| first editions
5	Introduction to Global Health more books like this by Kathryn H Jacobsen add to wishlist see all copies from $41.15! new only from $47.00! \| SVS
6	Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health more books like this by Laurie Garrett add to wishlist Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett challenges policy makers to create high-quality public health programs that are accessible to all populations. In this argument, she points out several historical events in which plagues broke out in nations where governments suddenly denied their citizens access to health care, such as India's 1994 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Essentials of Global Health more books like this by Richard L Skolnik add to wishlist see all copies from $42.38! new only from $47.33! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Textbook of International Health more books like this by Paul F Basch add to wishlist This excellent text brings together information that students and professionals working in the wide variety of disciplines concerned with international health will find in no other single source. It synthesizes historical, cultural, environmental, economic and political considerations to provide a comprehensive global overview of the many factors ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.41! \| first editions
9	Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures more books like this by Tony McMichael, A J McMichael add to wishlist This compelling account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind, and its changing survival and disease patterns, across place and time from when our ancient ancestors roamed the African Savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world. This expansion of human frontiers - geographic, climatic, cultural and technological - has ... see all copies from $3.05! new only from $19.98! \| SVS
10	Science Magazine's State of the Planet more books like this by Dr. Donald Kennedy (Editor) add to wishlist The articles collected here are arranged thematically and each section is introduced by a prominent scientist or science writer. Donald Kennedy, who was Editor-in-Chief of "Science "when these articles appeared in the magazine, contributes a preface and several short essays. Focusing on issues of energy and sustainability, sections of the volume ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $19.59! \| SVS
11 view cover	Global Inequality and Human Needs: Health and Illness in an Increasingly Unequal World more books like this by Laurie Wermuth add to wishlist This text uses a critical theoretical perspective to explore the links between social variables like race, class, and gender, and the health of populations around the world. see all copies from $22.51! new only from $59.64! \| SVS
12 view cover	Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom & the Water-Closet more books like this by Lawrence Wright add to wishlist Who would have supposed that the Romans had lagged hot-water pipes? that Queen Elizabeth I had a valve water-closet? that Louis XIV had cushions in his bath? that sponges have sex? This book, says the author, "is meant to entertain, even if scholarship does keep breaking through". This book offers an excursion into the household's most private ... see all copies from $5.74! new only from $5.75! \| first editions
13 view cover	Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism & Toxic Warfare more books like this by Leonard Horowitz add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50! new only from $39.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Wellbeing: A Cultural History of Healthy Living more books like this by Klaus Bergdolt, Jane Dewhurst (Translator) add to wishlist This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century, when scientific medicine began to gain ascendancy. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a lively and well exemplified account of the numerous historical manifestations of dietetics showing that despite ... see all copies from $20.82! new only from $22.65! \| first editions
15 view cover	The State of Health Atlas: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease more books like this by Diarmuid O'Donovan add to wishlist Bringing together the latest data to chart recent and emerging trends, this atlas offers a major new profile of the state of health worldwide. In clear, full-color graphic displays and concise, informative text, it maps the causes and incidences of the major diseases as well as the economic, social, and environmental factors that shape health ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $8.84! \| SVS
16 view cover	Primer on International Health more books like this by Robert W Buckingham add to wishlist A Primer on International Health is a compact, engaging reader-friendly anthology that covers the key global health topics that confront humanity in the twenty-first century. As a primer, this text strives to provide students with a foundation of learning on the most current and enduring international human health issues and problems. From ... see all copies from $23.75! new only from $83.31! \| first editions
17 view cover	A Call to Action more books like this by Hank A McKinnell add to wishlist Groundbreaking and provocative, "A Call to Action" reframes the dialogue on healthcare and offers people a way out of the zero-sum, win-or-lose game they now encounter. Distilling more than 30 years of experience in global healthcare, McKinnell provides concrete action steps to build cost-effective, inclusive healthcare that he believes can extend ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Health Policy in a Globalising World more books like this by Kelley Lee (Editor), Suzanne Fustukian (Editor), Kent Buse (Editor) add to wishlist Increasing recognition of the impact that globalisation may be having on public health has led to widespread concern about the risks arising from emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental degradation and demographic change. This book argues that health policy making is being affected by globalisation and that these effects are, in turn, ... see all copies from $11.37! new only from $25.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Global AIDS: Myths and Facts: Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic more books like this by Alexander Irwin, Joyce Millen, Dorothy Fallows, PH.D. add to wishlist AIDS is the most devastating communicable disease in history, and poor countries have been most severely impacted by the pandemic. Since the mid-1990s, the use of antiretroviral drug therapies has dramatically extended life expectancy and improved life quality for those with HIV/AIDS who can afford the costly treatments. Yet even as it raises new ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.40! \| SVS
20 view cover	Global Change and Health more books like this by Kelley Lee (Editor), Jeff Collin (Editor) add to wishlist Global health is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field as public health practitioners recognize the important challenges that global changes are posing for human health. Increasingly the determinants of health circumvent, undermine or are oblivious to the territorial boundaries of states. To effectively address health concerns exceeds the ... see all copies from $26.90! new only from $36.86!
21 view cover	Women's Global Health and Human Rights more books like this by Padmini Murthy add to wishlist Womens Global Health and Human Rights serves as an overview of the challenges faced by women in different regions of the world. Ideal as a tool for both professionals and students, this book discusses the similarities and differences in health and human rights challenges that are faced by women globally. Best practices and success stories are also ... see all copies from $55.53! new only from $55.53!
22 view cover	Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development more books like this by Peter J Hotez add to wishlist This title is authored by one of the world's leading experts on the NTDs. It conveys important information about this critical global health problem in non-technical language. It details the biological, social, and economic aspects of these diseases. It explains the links between global health and international economic development. It provides ... see all copies from $29.96! new only from $39.95! \| SVS
23 view cover	Public Health at the Crossroads: Achievements and Prospects more books like this by Robert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita add to wishlist This book is an introduction to public health as a discipline and a critique of its recent development. Identifying poverty as the greatest continuing threat to health worldwide, the authors, both of them prominent public health authorities, review epidemiological, demographic and public health trends internationally, and argue that the prospects ... see all copies from $3.29! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
24 view cover	AIDS in the World 1992 more books like this by Jonathan Mann (Editor), Daniel J M Tarantola (Editor), Thomas W Netter (Editor) add to wishlist The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health systems and entire societies in the 1990s will be much more severe than it was in the 1980s; up-to-date information about the disease is now crucial. Yet even though readers are deluged by technical publications and popularizations, no single book tracks, on an annual basis, the evolution of the pandemic, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.97! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity more books like this by ASHA George (Editor), Gita Sen (Editor), Piroska Ostlin (Editor) add to wishlist This volume presents the work of leading researchers on gender equity in international health. Growing economic inequalities reinforce social injustices, stall health gains, and deny good health to many. In particular, deep-seated gender biases in health research and policy institutions combine with a lack of well-articulated and accessible ... see all copies from $2.85! new only from $9.50!

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