'Globalization and Health' offers analysis of serious global threats to health, the tools that can be used to evaluate these, and the agencies established to respond to them. This work gives an account of the successes and failures, as well as the challenges and opportunities of globalisation for public health.

This volume explores how gender, place and space shape women's health from birth to old age. It examines women's health experiences, health care access, and the impacts of economic and social transformation on women's health in different places.

"In this study, sociologist Elizabeth Heger Boyle examines this controversial issue from the perspectives of the international system, governments, and individuals. Drawing on previous scholarship, records of international organizations, demographic surveys, and the popular media, Boyle examines how the issue is perceived and acted upon at international, national, and individual levels. Grounding her work in the sociological theory of neoinstitutionalism,...

The report describes the amount of disease, disability and death in the world today that can be attributed to a selected number of the most important risks to human health and also calculates how much of this present burden could be avoided in the next couple of decades if the same risk factors were reduced. It shows how some of those possible reductions can be achieved in a range of cost-effective ways--P. xiii.

This compelling account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography, and its changing survival patterns, from several million years ago when our ancient ancestors roamed the African Savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world.