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"Global health security, focused on a firefighting short-term response efforts fail to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. For example, the policy response to the Zika outbreak centred on limiting the spread of the vector through civic participation and asking women to defer pregnancy. Both actions are inherently gendered and reveal a distinct lack of consideration of the everyday lives of women. These policies placed women in a position whereby were blamed if they had a child born with Congenital Zika Syndrome, and at the same time governments required women to undertake invisible labour for vector control. What does this tell us about the role of women in global health security? This feminist critique of the Zika outbreak, argues that global health security has thus far lacked a substantive feminist engagement, with the result that the very policies created to manage an outbreak of disease disproportionately fail to protect women. Women are both differentially infected and affected by epidemics. Yet, the dominant policy narrative of global health security has created pathways which focus on protecting the international spread of disease to state economies, rather than protecting those who are most at risk. As such, the state-based structure of global health security provides the fault-line for global health security and women. This book highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy, through engagement with feminist security studies concepts of visibility; social and stratified reproduction; intersectionality; and structural violence. It argues that it was no coincidence that poor, black women living in low quality housing were the most affected by the Zika outbreak and will continue to be so, until global health security is gender mainstreamed. More broadly, I ask what would global health policy look like if it were to take gender seriously, and how would this impact global disease control sustainability?"--

"Introduction to Global Health provides a comprehensive examination of the key global health issues today, and unlike other global health texts on the market, aligns with key global health frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in this fourth edition, the newly approved CUGH learning objectives"--

pt. 1. Global health : bury me naked; Stuck in the global health; The global community knows what works ; Global health in history -- pt. II. AIDS : African perspectives on AIDS; Listening to Mbeki ; Why is it so difficult for the West to hear African voices; Listening to silence -- PT III. Family medicine : What is family medicine in Africa; Magesa's challeneg; Family medicine research -- pt. IV. Christian reflections : the Christian roots of global health ; Justice and listening; Development in Babylon; Global health is suffering necessary?; Conclusion have we been invited?; Epilogue ; Acknowledgment -- Notes.

Frontmatter -- Geleitwort -- Inhalt -- Verzeichnis der Autoren -- Eine Einführung in die Globale Gesundheit -- Teil I: Allgemeine Einführung -- 1 Zahlen, Fakten und Risiken -- 2 Kultur und Verhalten -- 3 Soziale Determinanten von Gesundheit und gesundheitlicher Ungerechtigkeit -- 4 Gesundheit und Menschenrechte: Das Recht auf Gesundheit -- 5 Ethik -- Teil II: Globalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit -- 6 Globalisierung und Gesundheit -- 7 Globale Entwicklungs- und Nachhaltigkeitsziele -- 8 Umwelt und Globale Gesundheit -- 9 Welternährung und Globale Gesundheit -- Teil III: Gesundheit und Krankheit -- 10 Gesundheit im Lebensverlauf -- 11 Infektionskrankheiten -- 12 Nichtübertragbare Erkrankungen -- 13 Globale Seelische Gesundheit -- Teil IV: Führung und Steuerung -- 14 Organisierte Akteure der Globalen Gesundheit -- 15 Die WHO als zentrales Forum der globalen Gesundheitspolitik -- 16 Globale Gesundheitspolitik aus analytischer und anwendungsorientierter Sicht -- 17 Gesundheit in humanitärer Hilfe und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit -- Teil V: Planung und Umsetzung -- 18 Gesundheitssysteme weltweit: beschreiben, verstehen, verbessern -- 19 Ökonomie und globale Gesundheit -- 20 Ökonomische Bewertung in der globalen Gesundheit -- 21 Gesundheitspersonal und die SDGs: globale Herausforderungen, neue Strategien und Politikgestaltung -- Stichwortverzeichnis

"H1N1. Diabetes. Ebola. Zika. Each of these health problems is rooted in a confluence of social, political, economic, and biomedical factors that together inform our understanding of global health. The imperative for those who study global health is to understand these factors individually and, especially, synergistically. Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition of Oxford's Textbook of Global Health offers a critical examination of the array of societal factors that shape health within and across countries, including how health inequities create consequences that must be addressed by public health, international aid, and social and economic policymaking"--Provided by publisher

This think piece argues for the importance of administrative and bureaucratic labor –'mundane' things – in maintaining US-African global health research partnerships and the power relations within them. The daily work of accounting, compliance, and risk management undertaken by global health 'enabling systems' created by US universities contrasts with global health's heroic self-image and conjures up negative imaginaries of intransigent African bureaucracies, crumbling communication infrastructure, and corruption. These negative imaginaries help to authorize forms of US fiscal and administrative control that may contradict global health's ethic of partnership and its related goal of 'building capacity' in low-income partner nations, as well as feed 'creative accounting' practices by both partner entities. Critiquing these inequalities may seem risky in an era of 'America First' and threatened cuts to global health funding. In fact, advocating for equity in global health partnerships and prioritizing the building of African institutional capacity are only made more urgent by the current political climate.

Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition equips students, advocates, and health professionals with building blocks for a critical understanding of global health. It explores societal determinants of health and health inequities within and between countries and an array of actions seeking to address these issues in spheres of health and development aid, solidarity cooperation, global and domestic policymaking, and civil society mobilization.