A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other Peoples by Packard, Randall M.

A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other Peoples

A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after...
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Author: Randall M. Packard
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A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other Peoples by Packard, Randall M.

A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other Peoples

$240.28

A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other Peoples

$240.28
Author: Randall M. Packard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.

Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions of people in low-income countries continue to live without access to basic health services, sanitation, or clean water? And why are deadly diseases like Ebola able to spread so quickly among populations?

In A History of Global Health, Randall M. Packard argues that global-health initiatives have saved millions of lives but have had limited impact on the overall health of people living in underdeveloped areas, where health-care workers are poorly paid, infrastructure and basic supplies such as disposable gloves, syringes, and bandages are lacking, and little effort has been made to address the underlying social and economic determinants of ill health. Global-health campaigns have relied on the application of biomedical technologies--vaccines, insecticide-treated nets, vitamin A capsules--to attack specific health problems but have failed to invest in building lasting infrastructure for managing the ongoing health problems of local populations.

Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices.



Author: Randall M. Packard
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 09/15/2016
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781421420325

About the Author

Randall M. Packard is the William H. Welch Professor and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria and White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa.




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