Global Health: An Integrated Management Approach

Global Health: An Integrated Management Approach represents a collection of applied management principles and tools towards priority issues around the world. The book explores health burdens ranging from Communicable to Non Communicable Chronic Diseases as well as physical, mental and social considerations for the medical care and overall management of individual and population based disease burdens. Diverse geographical locations together with their respective health challenges will be presented together with its epidemiology, social and behavioral risk factors, clinical care and management. A global representation of health issues provides a representative understanding of the international health landscape with specific and targeted management approaches applied towards a solution based framework. Global health is a dynamic and evolving field as populations dynamics, environmental changes and options for care and management change over time. This book reflects global health issues and priorities from a pre-COVID-19 perspective which remains an ongoing and developing issue to be explored further.