"This text provides students with current information on various global health topics. Written by academic authors, scientists, and health practitioners, the text prepares students with a basic perspective of health policy issues from various geographical regions and explains how they are affected by significant world events. The text addresses international health and healthcare at both the undergraduate and graduate levels"-- Provided by publisher.

Section I. Global health issues, policy, and healthcare delivery. Global health: an introduction -- Global health in developed societies: examples in the United States, Sweden, Japan, and the United Kingdom -- Developing countries: Egypt, China, India, and South Africa -- Global perspectives on economics and healthcare finance -- Section II. Special global health and healthcare issues. Human trafficking: the pandemic of modern slavery -- Social determinants of health -- Health and health care of Native Americans (American Indians/Alaskan Natives/Alaskan Indians) in the United States -- Global perspectives on mental health -- Global major neurological issues -- Global perspectives on selected chronic cardiovascular diseases -- Infectious diseases from a global perspective -- HIV/AIDS, stigma, and disclosure: a need for a human rights perspective -- Global use of complementary and integrative health approaches -- Global perspectives on diabetes, respiratory diseases, and orthopedic chronic diseases -- Global perspectives on violence, injury, and occupational health -- Global perspectives on nutrition -- Global perspectives on environmental health -- International social work practice in health care -- Section III. Life span health issues. Global health in reproduction and infants -- Global health of children -- Global health of the older adult -- Section IV. Worldwide health issues and trends by specific country. A unique perspective on health care in Panama? -- Health and health care in Mexico -- Health and health care in Israel.