Global Health Care. Issues and Policies + Online Access

Overview

This revised Second Edition of Global Health Care: Issues and Policies equips students with up-to-date information on various global health topics and perspectives. It prepares readers with a basic perspective of health policy issues in different geographical regions, and explains how they are affected by significant world events. Author Carol Holtz, a nursing professor who understands student needs, outlines the cultural, religious, economic, and political influences on global health to guide students through the text and edits contributions from many notable authors..

New to this Edition

• Updates to all chapters to include timely data and references
• Includes coverage of new infectious diseases as well as updated current diseases
• Chapter Three: Global Perspectives on Economics and Health Care is completely revised
• Three new chapters: Ethical and End of Life Issues; Human Rights, Stigma and HIV Disclosure; Health and Health Care in Mexico
• An Instructor's Manual, featuring PowerPoint Presentations, a Test Bank, and additional Assignments and Discussion Questions for each chapter
• A robust Companion Website, complete with engaging online learning activities for students

General Topics Covered Throughout the Text

• Culture
• Religion and health
• Health research
• Ethics and health
• Reproductive health
• Infectious diseases
• Chronic diseases
• Nutrition
• Mental health
• Environmental health
• Aging
• Ambulatory care
• Economics and health care
• Health care insurance

Reviews

"The text is well suited for a curriculum having global health care as a thread, or it would be a great text for a course on International/global health for nursing, allied health and possibly students enrolled in an international business course with a health emphasis. It is my belief nursing education should prepare our students to think more globally so their practice reflects a broader more culturally sensitive philosophy."
-Sandra Sayles, PhD, RN, Professor - NSULA

Table of Contents

Part I Global Health Issues, Policy, and Healthcare Delivery

• Chapter 1 Global Health: An Introduction
• Chapter 2 Global Health in Developed Societies: Examples in the United States, Sweden, Japan, and the United Kingdom
• Chapter 3 Developing Countries: Egypt, China, India, and South Africa
• Chapter 4 Global Perspectives of Economics and Health Care
• Chapter 5 Global Perspectives on Politics and Public Health Policy: The Case of Tobacco
• Chapter 6 Ethics of End-of-Life Care from a Global Perspective

Part II Special Global Health and Healthcare Issues

• Chapter 7 Infectious Diseases from a Global Perspective
• Chapter 8 HIV/AIDS, Stigma, and Disclosure: A Need for a Human Rights Perspective
• Chapter 9 Global Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Treatments
• Chapter 10 Global Perspectives on Selected Chronic Cardiovascular Diseases
• Chapter 11 Global Perspectives on Diabetes, Respiratory Diseases, and Orthopedic Chronic Diseases
• Chapter 12 Cancer as a Public Health Problem: An Overview for Allied Healthcare Professionals
• Chapter 13 Global Perspectives on Violence, Injury, and Occupational Health
• Chapter 14 Global Perspectives on Nutrition
• Chapter 15 Global Perspectives on Mental Health
• Chapter 16 Global Perspectives on Environmental Health

Part III Lifespan Health Issues

• Chapter 17 Global Health in Reproduction and Infants
• Chapter 18 Global Health of Children
• Chapter 19 Global Health of the Older Adult

Part IV Worldwide Health Issues and Trends by Specific Country

• Chapter 20 A Unique Perspective on Health Care in Panama
• Chapter 21 Health and Health Care in Mexico
• Chapter 22 Health and Health Care in Israel
• Chapter 23 Establishing Medical and Nursing Education Programs in the Country of Georgia

Authors

Carol Holtz, RN, PhD-Professor of Nursing, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
Dr. Carol Holtz is beginning her thirtieth year of teaching at Kennesaw State University (greater Atlanta, Georgia). She is a Professor of Nursing at the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, School of Nursing and teaches Parent-Child Nursing, Community Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, International Health, and the Nursing Practicum in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is also teaching courses addressing vulnerable populations’ health and healthcare within the Doctor of Nursing Science Degree Program. Dr. Holtz works with students in the clinical sites of Grady Memorial Hospital and the Cobb County Health Department. Dr. Holtz serves as the elected Vice Chair of the Cobb County Board of Health and Cobb Community Services Board. She is past president of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Georgia State University and current Board Member of the Mu Phi Chapter of Kennesaw State University. She is also a member of Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, and an elected member of the Scholars Organization of the International Transcultural Nursing Society. She has been a guest lecturer at the Traditional Chinese Medical University in Nanjing, China, at the Medical University at Yangzhou, China, and Xinjiang Medical University in Urumqi, China, at the School of Nursing at Baguio, Philippines, and at Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt.

Notable Contributing Authors

Dr. Larry Purnell, distinguished transcultural nursing author Dr. Govind Hariharan; former CEO of WellStar Corporation, one of the largest US healthcare agencies Dr. Gregory Simone, Department Chair of Economics of Kennesaw State University Dr. Barbara Blake and Dr. Gloria Taylor, both recipients of large HIV research funded grants Dr. Richard Sowell, Dean of College of WellStar College of Health and Human Services, Kennesaw State University Dr. Kenneth Phillips, Research Dean at Univ. of Tennessee Dr. Marvin Friedman, toxicologist and former CEO of American Cyanamid Corporation