TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Global Issues in Medicine
A1  - Rhatigan, Joseph J.
A1  - Farmer, Paul
A2  - Jameson, J. Larry
A2  - Fauci, Anthony S.
A2  - Kasper, Dennis L.
A2  - Hauser, Stephen L.
A2  - Longo, Dan L.
A2  - Loscalzo, Joseph
PY  - 2018
T2  - Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e
AB  - Global  health  has  emerged  as  an  important  field  within  medicine.  Some  scholars  have  defined  global  health  as  the  field  of  study  and  practice  concerned  with  improving  the  health  of  all  people  and  achieving  health  equity  worldwide,  with  an  emphasis  on  addressing  transnational  problems.  No  single  review  can  do  much  more  than  identify  the  leading  problems  in  applying  evidence-based  medicine  in  settings  of  great  poverty  or  across  national  boundaries.  However,  this  is  a  moment  of  opportunity:  only  recently,  persistent  epidemics,  improved  metrics,  and  growing  interest  have  been  matched  by  an  unprecedented  investment  in  addressing  the  health  problems  of  poor  people  in  the  developing  world.  To  ensure  that  this  opportunity  is  not  wasted,  the  facts  need  to  be  laid  out  for  specialists  and  laypeople  alike.  This  chapter  introduces  the  major  international  bodies  that  address  health  problems;  identifies  the  more  significant  barriers  to  improving  the  health  of  people  who  to  date  have  not,  by  and  large,  had  access  to  modern  medicine;  and  summarizes  population-based  data  on  the  most  common  health  problems  faced  by  people  living  in  poverty.  Examining  specific  problems—notably  HIV/AIDS  (Chap.  197)  but  also  tuberculosis  (Chap.  173),  malaria  (Chap.  219),  Ebola  (Chap.  205),  and  key  “noncommunicable”  chronic  diseases  (NCDs)—helps  sharpen  the  discussion  of  barriers  to  prevention,  diagnosis,  and  care  as  well  as  the  means  of  overcoming  them.  This  chapter  closes  by  discussing  global  health  equity,  drawing  on  notions  of  social  justice  that  once  were  central  to  international  public  health  but  had  fallen  out  of  favor  during  the  last  decades  of  the  twentieth  century.  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155961445
ER  -