Global Child Health Advocacy: On the Front Lines - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581107803 ISBN 13: 9781581107807

Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2013

Synopsis

Global Child Health Advocacy: On the Front Lines inspires and equips child health professionals to join together and work for positive change.

This first-in-its-field resource brings you up-close accounts of successful initiatives straight from the front lines. If offers an inside look on the innovative strategies, tools, and techniques today's advocates use to promote health, deliver targeted care, and implement policies to improve children's lives.

A multi-national editorial team assembles engaging stories chronicling the experiences of top-tier advocates in every corner of the globe:

- Improving access to care in Nigeria
- Creating a public child medical insurance system in China
- Haemophilus influenzae vaccine advocacy in Guatemala
- Implementing a national immunization program in the U.S.
- Community partnerships for polio eradication in India
- Malnutrition crisis intervention in Niger
- HIV advocacy in South Africa
- Reducing neonatal mortality in Chile
- Campaigning against tobacco in the western Pacific
- Preventing diarheal diseases in Peru
- And much more!

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Berman, MD, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics and public health at  the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Colorado School of Public Health and the Children's Hospital Colorado endowed chair in general pediatrics. Dr. Berman is a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1581107803
• ISBN 13: 9781581107807
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 331
• Editor: Berman MD FAAP Stephen, Palfrey MD Judith S., Bhutta MBBS PhD Dr. Zulfiqar, Grange MBChB DCH Adenike O.