图书简介

Foreword; Introduction; Part I. The Context of Public Health: 1. Public health, the medical profession, and state building: a historical perspective; 2. The political, economic, and social context; 3. The demographic transitions: characteristics and public health implications; 4. Environmental degradation: the challenge of sustaining life; Part II. The Social Determinants of Health: 5. Health inequities: social determinants and policy implications; 6. Assets and health: towards a new framework; 7. Gender disparities in health; 8. Knowledge gaps: the agenda for research and action; Part III. Health and Disease: A Focus on Avoidable Conditions: 9. Introduction: health and disease in the regional context; 10. Nutrition and food security: the Arab World in transition; 11. Infectious diseases: the unfinished agenda and future needs; 12. Non-communicable diseases I: burden and approaches to prevention; 13. Non-communicable diseases II: focus on cardiovascular diseases; 14. An overview of mental disorders; 15. Recognising omitted contexts and implicit paradigms: toward a valid mental health discourse; 16. Injury epidemiology and prevention; Part IV. The Health of Population Groups: 17. Child health: caring for the future; 18. The health of young people: challenges and opportunities; 19. Women’s health: progress and unaddressed issues; 20. The older persons: from veneration to vulnerability?; 21. The well-being of migrant women: between agency and restraint; 22. Workers health: a social framework beyond workplace hazards; Part V. Public Health in War and Violent Conflict: 23. Conflict in health: meeting challenges to insecurity; 24. Health status and health services in the occupied Palestinian territory; 25. Public health in crisis: Iraq; 26. Summer 2006 war on Lebanon: a lesson in community resilience; Part VI. Health Systems: Toward Equity and Accountability: 27. Introduction: seeing the trees, not missing the forest; 28. Health system governance; 29. Health system financing: the bottleneck of the right to health; 30. The public health workforce and human resource for health; 31. Health care delivery: the missing links; 32. Access to essential medicines: impediments and the way forward; Part VII. Public Health and the Social Agenda: 33. Graduate education in public health: toward a multidisciplinary model; 34. Participatory community interventions: a case study approach; 35. Reflections on the de-politicization of health and scholarship; 36. Toward a regional perspective on health and human security; 37. Egypt in crisis: politics, health care, and social mobilization for health rights; 38. Can action on health achieve political and social reform?; Postscript; Index.

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