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Global Child Health


Global Child Health

A Toolkit to Address Health Disparities
SpringerBriefs in Public Health

von: Krishnan Subrahmanian, Padma Swamy

CHF 59.00

Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 28.04.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319751368
Sprache: englisch

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<p>This timely resource brings child health to the forefront of global health and the crucial goal of universal equity of care. Its resource-based framework offers contemporary perspective on factors driving child health disparities, specific vulnerabilities of underserved children, and ways readers can become effective advocates for children. The book critiques current child health policy worldwide, examining both policies that are helping to alleviate and are contributing to further inequities. And the authors provide an extensive toolkit to aid professionals in multidimensional screening for child, newborn, maternal, and post-natal health as well as socioeconomic determinants of health.</p> Included in the coverage:<p>·&nbsp; What is global health?</p> <p>·&nbsp; The current state of global child health and disparities</p> <p>·&nbsp; Global health disparities in high-resource settings</p> <p>·&nbsp; Pathologies disproportionally affecting the underserved</p> <p>·&nbsp; Policy and advocacy framework</p> <p>·&nbsp; Navigating the domestic resources (an advocate’s well child check)</p> <p><i>Global Child Health</i> will find a ready&nbsp;audience among child health providers (physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing staff, social workers, allied healthcare providers, public health professionals), medical educators (medical schools, departments of pediatrics, schools of public health, nursing schools and programs, schools of allied health), and child health policymakers (staff at&nbsp;USAID, Health and Human Services, health services researchers in child and global health policy, health advocacy-related nonprofit organizations).</p>
<div><b>Part 1: What Is Global (Child) Health?</b>.-&nbsp;Chapter 1: Define Global (Child) Health.- Chapter 2: International Setting.- Chapter 3: Domestic Setting.-&nbsp;<b>Part 2: Who and What Do We Treat</b>.-&nbsp;Chapter 4: Specific Populations in Global Child Health in the USA.- Chapter 5: Malnutrition, Infectious disease, and NCDs disproportionately affecting the underserved.-&nbsp;<b>Part 3: How Do We treat It?</b>.-<b>&nbsp;</b>Chapter 6: International: The Policy tool kits.- Chapter 7: Navigating the Domestic Resources (An Advocate's Well Child Check). -<b>Part 4: Why This Work Is Important; Conclusion</b>.</div>
<b>Krishnan Subrahmanian, MD</b>, <b>MPhil,</b> is assistant professor of Pediatrics and pediatrician at Hennepin County Medical Center of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Dr. Subrahmanian also is maternal child health specialist at Partners in Health. He was chief resident in Pediatrics and Global Child Health at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, TX, USA.<div><br></div><div><b>Padma Swamy, MD</b>, is clinical instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, USA.</div>
This timely resource brings child health to the forefront of global health and the crucial goal of universal equity of care. Its resource-based framework offers contemporary perspective on factors driving child health disparities, specific vulnerabilities of underserved children, and ways readers can become effective advocates for children. The book critiques current child health policy worldwide, examining both policies that are helping to alleviate and are contributing to further inequities. And the authors provide an extensive toolkit to aid professionals in multidimensional screening for child, newborn, maternal, and post-natal health as well as socioeconomic determinants of health.<p>Included in the coverage:</p> <p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What is global health?</p> <p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The current state of global child health and disparities</p> <p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Global health disparities in high-resource settings</p> <p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pathologies disproportionally affecting the underserved</p> <p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Policy and advocacy framework</p> <p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Navigating the domestic resources (an advocate’s well child check)</p> <p><i>Global Child Health</i> will find a ready&nbsp;audience among child health providers (physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing staff, social workers, allied healthcare providers, public health professionals), medical educators (medical schools, departments of pediatrics, schools of public health, nursing schools and programs, schools of allied health), and child health policymakers (staff at&nbsp;USAID, Health and Human Services, health services researchers in child and global health policy, health advocacy-related nonprofit organizations).</p>
Presents and defines global health in the national context Compares and contrasts international and national global child health Offers guidance on advocating for child health both internationally and locally by providing readers with an advocacy tool kit and resources Identifies and describes the challenges faced by underserved communities in the United States Defines the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of the most common ailments affecting underserved children
<div>Presents and defines global health in the national context &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Compares and contrasts international and national global child health&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Offers guidance on advocating for child health both internationally and locally by providing readers with an advocacy tool kit and resources</div><div><br></div><div>Identifies and describes the challenges faced by underserved communities in the United States</div><div><br></div><div>Defines the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of the most common ailments affecting underserved children<br></div>

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