This guide supports class ASB100 - Introduction to Global Health - The study of human health patterns at an international and local scale. Focus on pressing global health challenges that the world faces today are examined from a broad social, ecological, and cultural context.
What is Global Health?
Disease doesn’t care about national borders. The pathogen hopping the red eye from Berlin to Boston doesn’t need a passport. So, in order to be proactive about protecting our health, we need to think globally. In this episode, we’re traveling around the world to look struggles and triumphs of public health on a global scale.
Books on Global Health
Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780309477895Publication Date: 2019-01-27
Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century: Toward New Paradigms, Policy, and Practice by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826127679Publication Date: 2015-08-01
