Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Child Health (BRIEFSCHILD)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- global child health
- global health international and local
- advocating for child health globally
- social determinants of health
- vulnerable children
- child poverty
- infant and child morbidity and mortality
- child health policy
- human trafficking in children
- refugee and immigrant child health
- international child health
- national child health
- domestic child health
- health disparities
- health equity
- underserved children
- epidemiology
- socioeconomics
- prevention and treatment
- neonatal health
About this book
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.
Included in the coverage:· What is global health?
· The current state of global child health and disparities
· Global health disparities in high-resource settings
· Pathologies disproportionally affecting the underserved
· Policy and advocacy framework
· Navigating the domestic resources (an advocate’s well child check)
Global Child Health will find a ready 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 USAID, Health and Human Services, health services researchers in child and global health policy, health advocacy-related nonprofit organizations).
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Padma Swamy, MD, is clinical instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Child Health
Book Subtitle: A Toolkit to Address Health Disparities
Authors: Krishnan Subrahmanian, Padma Swamy
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75136-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75135-1Published: 14 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75136-8Published: 28 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 101
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Maternal and Child Health, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Pediatrics, Epidemiology