What do you think?
Rate this book
An Introduction to Global Health Delivery: Practice, Equity, Human Rights
"What Mukherjee attempts, and succeeds in doing, is to offer what many students -- undergraduates as well as students of medicine, nursing, and public health -- have long clamored a primer not only of recent developments in global health, but also a patient dissection of what has worked
less well (and what hasn't worked at all)." --Paul Farmer, from the foreword
The field of global health has roots in the AIDS pandemic of the late 20th century, when the installation of health care systems supplanted older, low-cost prevention programs to help stem the spread of HIV in low- and middle-income Africa. Today's global health is rooted the belief that health
care is a human right, and that by promoting health we can cultivate equity and social justice in places where such values aren't always found.
An Introduction to Global Health Delivery is a short but immersive introduction to global health's origins, actors, interventions, and challenges. Informed by physician Joia Mukherjee's quarter-century of experience fighting disease and poverty in more than a dozen countries, it delivers a
clear-eyed overview of the movement underway to reduce global health disparities and establish sustainable access to care, including details of what has worked so far -- and what hasn't.
Grounded in the historical and social factors that propagate health disparities and enriched with case studies and exercises that encourage readers to think critically about the subject matter, this text is the essential starting point for readers of any background seeking a practical grounding in
global health's promise and progress.
less well (and what hasn't worked at all)." --Paul Farmer, from the foreword
The field of global health has roots in the AIDS pandemic of the late 20th century, when the installation of health care systems supplanted older, low-cost prevention programs to help stem the spread of HIV in low- and middle-income Africa. Today's global health is rooted the belief that health
care is a human right, and that by promoting health we can cultivate equity and social justice in places where such values aren't always found.
An Introduction to Global Health Delivery is a short but immersive introduction to global health's origins, actors, interventions, and challenges. Informed by physician Joia Mukherjee's quarter-century of experience fighting disease and poverty in more than a dozen countries, it delivers a
clear-eyed overview of the movement underway to reduce global health disparities and establish sustainable access to care, including details of what has worked so far -- and what hasn't.
Grounded in the historical and social factors that propagate health disparities and enriched with case studies and exercises that encourage readers to think critically about the subject matter, this text is the essential starting point for readers of any background seeking a practical grounding in
global health's promise and progress.
376 pages, Paperback
First published November 14, 2017
15 people are currently reading
1065 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
February 13, 2025
Read this for my global public health course and it even more sparked my interest in this field!
March 30, 2019
Planning to use this as one of the books in a global health course I co-teach in the fall. Overall a very good, concise summary of international development as it pertains to health care, and why things are the way they are. And how they are improving and can improve. Written by a well respected person with a lot of practical experience, which I liked about the book. Only fault for me is that it has a strong activism slant and doesn't always present all the sides of the argument. For example, while I totally agree with the arguments against the World Bank and IMF policies and ongoing issues from colonialism, many countries had pretty awful leaders that shouldn't completely get a pass either. But overall, strongly recommend the book, looking forward to using it in class.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews