Main description:

Introduction to Global Health Promotion addresses a breadth and depth of public health topics that students and emerging professionals in the field must understand as the world's burden of disease changes with non-communicable diseases on the rise in low- and middle-income countries as their middle class populations grow. Now more than ever, we need to provide health advocacy and intervention to prevent, predict, and address emerging global health issues. This new text from the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) prepares readers with thorough and thoughtful chapters on global health promotion theories, best practices, and perspectives on the future of the field, from the individual to the global level. The world's biggest health care challenges including HIV, malaria, heart disease, smoking, and violence, among others are explored in detail in Introduction to Global Health Promotion. The state of the science, including the latest empirical data, is distilled into 19 chapters that update readers on the complex issues surrounding a variety of illnesses and conditions, and disease epidemics and individual, social, institutional, and governmental barriers to preventing them.
Expert authors bring to the fore human rights issues, new uses of technology, and practical application of theory. These perspectives, along with the book's multidisciplinary approach, serve to create a well-rounded understanding of global health today. Learn more from the Editors of Introduction to Global Health Promotion here.

Contents:

Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix The Editors xxi SOPHE xxv The Contributors xxvii Chapter 1 The State of Global Health 1 Richard Skolnik Chapter 2 Global Health Promotion: The State of the Science 31 David V. McQueen Chapter 3 Global Health Promotion and the Social Determinants of Health 49 Kumanan Rasanathan and Alyssa Sharkey Chapter 4 Models of Health Behavior Change: International Applications 65 Rick S. Zimmerman, Zhiwen Xiao, Purnima Mehrotra, and Charles Roy Chapter 5 Two Health Communication Approaches: Communication for Behavioral Impact (COMBI) and Entertainment Education 99 Everold N. Hosein, May G. Kennedy, and Sandra de Castro Buffington Chapter 6 Global Health Promotion in the Context of Human Rights 129 Elvira Beracochea and Lubna Ahmed Chapter 7 eHealth and Global Health Promotion 145 Sheana S. Bull, Gretchen Domek, and Deborah Thomas Chapter 8 Reducing Maternal and Infant Mortality: Meeting a Global Challenge 173 Padmini Murthy Chapter 9 Malaria Prevention and Control 191 Fouzia Farooq and Elke S. Bergmann-Leitner Chapter 10 Global Immunization Initiatives from a Health Promotion Perspective 209 Marilyn E. Rice, Jon K. Andrus, Virginia Swezy, and Rick S. Zimmerman Chapter 11 The Evolving Global HIV Pandemic: Epidemiology, Prevention, and Future Priorities 239 Ralph J. DiClemente, Puja Seth, and Purnima Mehrotra Chapter 12 Community-Based Risk Communication in Epidemics and Emerging Disease Settings 271 Renata Schiavo, Karen M. Hilyard, and Ewart C. Skinner Chapter 13 Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs): Moving Toward Health Promotion 303 C. James Hospedales, Andr'e Pascal Kengne, Branka Legetic, and Adriana Blanco Marquizo Chapter 14 Women's Cancers 339 Silvana Luciani and Irene Agurto Chapter 15 Health Promotion in Families and Communities: An Integrated Approach from Latin America and the Caribbean 363 Fernando Zacarias, Adrian Diaz, Manuel Pena, Adela Paez Jimenez, Leticia Martinez, and Gina Tambini Chapter 16 Oral Health Promotion 383 Margaret Scarlett and Gary L. Kreps Chapter 17 Adaptation and Implementation of Public Health Innovations in Developing Countries 425 Bonita Stanton, Xiaoming Li, and Linda Kaljee Chapter 18 Health Promotion in the Global Setting: The Role of International Organizations and Governments 445 John (Jack) Bryant and F. Curtiss Swezy Chapter 19 The Future of Global Health Promotion 467 Rick S. Zimmerman, Jon K. Andrus, and C. James Hospedales Author Index 491 Subject Index 499