Global health is a rapidly emerging discipline with a transformative potential for public policy and international development. Emphasizing transnational health issues, global health aims to improve health and achieve health equity for all people worldwide. Its multidisciplinary scope includes contributions from many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, including clinical medicine, public health, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, economics, public policy, law and ethics.

This large reference offers up-to-date information and expertise across all aspects of global health and helps readers to achieve a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the topics, trends as well as the clinical, socioeconomic and environmental drivers impacting global health. 

As a fully comprehensive, state-of-the-art and continuously updated, living reference, the Handbook of Global Health is an important, dynamic resource to provide context for global health clinical care, organizational decision-making, and overall public policy on many levels. Health workers, physicians, economists, environmental and social scientists, trainees and medical students as well as professionals and practitioners will find this handbook of great value.

Global Health - Definition, Principles & Drivers

Globalization & Global Health - Impact, Trends & Consequences
Urbanisation & Cities as Drivers of Global Health
Aging & Global Health
Cultural Diversity & Global Health
Digital Transformation & Global Health
Study Designs in Global Health Research
Epidemiological Methods & Measures in Global Health Research
Quantitative Methods in Global Health Research
Qualitative Methods in Global Health Research
Mixed-methods in Global Health Research
Accountability & Aid Effectiveness Research in Global Health
Global health project design, monitoring & evaluation
Causal inference in global health epidemiology
Evidence synthesis in global health epidemiology
Disease surveillance & monitoring: Epidemic diagnosis & control
Dynamics of disease occurence & transmission
Epidemiological transition & changing pattern of disease
Demographic approaches to population dynamics
Population mortality & global causes of death - pattern & trends
Global Migration & Population Health  
Population health dynamics & fertility: pattern, predictors & projections
Global burden of CVD - prevalence, pattern & trends
Global burden of COPD - prevalence, pattern & trends
Global burden of Cancer - prevalence, pattern & trends
Global burden of Alzheimer & other dementias
Global burden of Diabetes Mellitus
Global burden of Road injury.