The Practice of International Health A Case-Based Orientation

* Selling point: The book contains a series of casebooks presenting vivid accounts of international health crises as told by people who were there. Each case is introduced by the editors, written by a key figure in the story, and followed by a series of practical questions and other learning tools to help examine the pertinent issues and debates.

Virtually every school of public health teaches a global health course, yet the major textbooks provide little on the actual practice of international health. This new book comprises a series of vivid first person accounts in which physicians, epidemiologists, health workers, and public health professionals from around the world present the critical dilemmas and challenges facing the field. Aimed primarily at medical and public health students and professionals, this book will be a much-needed addition to the existing literature. Related fields, such as development and urban studies, will find this book an engaging introduction to the core issues of international development. International health practitioners, national and local policymakers, foundations officers, and other related professionals will also find it an invaluable compendium.

"The Practice of International Health is a beautifully conceived and beautifully written book. It offers an inspiring example of what may be accomplished when scholars with field experience break free of rigid disciplinary boundaries in order to examine key problems in international health. This case-based approach is precisely the one that will allow us to build a new field based on broad understandings of these problems and on the solutions that might follow. The need for and vibrant potential of such a focus on practice that resonates in every page of this book signals its profound relevance to students and teachers of public health, and, one hopes, to policy makers and funders." From the Foreward by Paul Farmer

Introduction
I. Health and Development
1: Assefaw Tekeste: The EPLF and the Pastoralists of Eritrea
2: Zafrullah Chowdhury: Gonoshasthaya Kendra
3: Ciro de Quadros: The Genesis of the Polio Eradication Initiative
4: Julie Cliff: Konzo: An Orphan Disease
II. The Difference That Gender Makes
5: Nuriye Nalan Sahin Hodoglugil: Beijing + 5
6: Aruna Uprety: Mobilizing for the Right to Abortion in Nepal
7: Suneeta Krishnan: Swasthya: Caste, Class, and Women's Health in India
8: Sandra Lane: Applying Global Health Lessons to Syracuse, New York
III. The Calculus Of Health: Markets, Frontiers, Franchises
9: Alejandro Ceren and Meredith Fort: Health Care Reform in Guatemala
10: Gopi Gopalakrisnan: Janani: Social Franchising in India
11: "Returned to Sender": Corruption and Health in Nigeria
12: Jane Galvão: Antiretroviral Drugs in Brazil