Global health : a challenge for interdisciplinary research / / Martin Kappas, Uwe Groß, Dermot Kelleher (editors)

• Pubblicazione: Göttingen : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (some colour), colour maps
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetto topico: World health; Medical care; Medical policy; Holistic medicine
• Persona (resp. second.): KappasM (Martin); GrossU (Uwe); KelleherDermot
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Editorial : A challenge for interdisciplinary research / Martin Kappas Global Health -- I. Setting the Scene -- 2. Knowledge based approaches to international health: The Eurolife International Health Alliance -- 3. The One Health Concept in a development context -- 4. Commitments on a global level translating into actions locally -- 5. Linkages between economic and health outcomes: Options for interventions for better health -- 6. Cross-cultural bioethics as an interdisciplinary approach -- 7. The role of plant health for human health -- 8. Inter-disciplinary health approaches for poverty alleviation: Control of neglected zoonoses in developing countries -- 9. Arbovirus infections in cattle -- II. Health risks related to maternal and child mortality - examples from Africa and India -- 10. Maternal mortality: A consequence of a lack of reverence for life? -- 11. Risk of maternal mortality: Indian scenario -- 12. Neonatal infection in resource-limited countries -- 13. Reducing child and maternal undernutrition in the context of food security programmes - Ongoing activities of FAO -- 14. Global policies and local implementation: Maternal mortality in rural India -- 15. Research as a tool to tackle maternal health problems in resource-poor settings -- 16. The agriculture and health program of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), a CGIAR institution in Africa -- III. Specific initiatives and research topics under the vision of GIHN -- ; 17. Asperigillosis: a major challenge for public health -- 18. IGHEP - a partnership on health education between Indonesian and German universities -- 19. Usefulness of microbiological laboratories in a rural African setting -- 20. Rapid diagnostics for resource-poor settings -- 21. Urinary tract infections in Tanzania: Diagnosis, pathogens and susceptibility pattern -- 22. Rapid screening and mapping of urinary schistosomiasis prevalence at the village scale in the Sourou Valley, Burkina Faso -- 23. Schistosomiasis around the Lake Victoria, Northwest Tanzania -- 24. Malaria in Kossi Province, Burkina Faso: An investigation of spatio-temporal incidence pattern -- 25. Anemia - What has to be investigated in an African setting? -- 26. Two weeks cataract surgery in rural Ethiopia -- 27. Ultrasonography at a rural district hospital in sub-Saharan Africa - a mixed blessing? -- 28. Medical Geography and travel-related health risks in Overseas Tourism.
• Sommario/riassunto: Human, animal and plant health is a field of work which offers opportunities for inter- and trans-disciplinary research. The whole topic bridges the natural and social sciences. Today, in a world of global environmental change it is widely recognized that human societies and their wellbeing depend on a sustainable equilibrium of ecosystem services and the possibility of cultural adaptation to global environmental change. The need to identify and quantify health risks related to global environmental change is now one of the most important challenges of humankind. Describing spatial (geographic, intra/inter-population) and temporal differences in health risks is an urgent task to understand societies’ vulnerabilities and priorities for interventions better. The Göttingen International Health Network (GIHN) is a research and teaching network in relation to this cross-cutting topic. The book provides a collection of articles which contribute to this issue of overriding importance and presents an overview of the GIHN launch event.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global health
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996200820003316
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