Kathryn H. Jacobsen - Introduction to Global Health

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jacobsen, Kathryn H., author.

Title: Introduction to global health / Kathryn H. Jacobsen.

Other titles: Global health

Description: Fourth edition. | Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2024] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2022006405 | ISBN 9781284234930 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: World health. | Public health. | GlobalizationHealth aspects. | MESH: World Health. | Communicable Disease Control. | Health Transition. | Internationality. | BISAC: MEDICAL / Public Health

Classification: LCC RA441 .J33 2022 | DDC 362.1dc23/eng/20220225

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The first and second editions of Introduction to Global Health were written during the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs spelled out an ambitious plan for significantly reducing global poverty between 2000 and 2015. Thanks to the support of partners around the world, many of the MDG targets were achieved. The number of people living in extreme poverty dropped substantially during the first 15 years of the 21st century, and significant progress was made toward alleviating hunger, preventing maternal and child mortality, and controlling HIV/AIDS and malaria.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were launched at the end of 2015 as the follow-up to the MDGs, were used as an organizing framework for the third edition of Introduction to Global Health . The SDGs consist of 17 goals for enhancing human flourishing by 2030 by promoting prosperity while upholding human rights, protecting the planet, and fostering peace and security. Improvements in any of the 17 areas will yield benefits for population health, and improvements in global public health will enable other SDGs to be achieved. While the MDGs focused on health problems that primarily burden low-income countries, the SDGs include targets that apply to every country worldwide, including containing the spread of infectious diseases, improving management of noncommunicable diseases, promoting mental health, and preventing injuries. The priorities spelled out in the SDGs continue to guide funding and policy decisions in global health, and they remain a core theme in the revised edition of the textbook ().

The major updates for this new fourth edition of Introduction to Global Health feature emerging themes related to what might come to be known as the pandemic era. New and expanded content about global health security, health equity, health metrics, and other areas of global health that have grown in importance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic are integrated into chapters throughout the text. The sections of the text that feature the SDGs and various other health targets established by the World Health Organization and global partnerships acknowledge the setbacks that have been caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a series of new tables summarizes the many types of interventions that can be used to resume progress toward achieving improved world health. Global health has never been more visible than it is today. This text provides a forward-looking perspective on the numerous actions that are helping promote the physical, mental, and social health of people across the life span and across the globe.