Critical Issues in Global Health [Paperback]

Critical Issues in Global Health is an outstanding compAndium of knowledge and thought--from a distinguished panel of internationally renowned medical and public health experts--that offers insight into the most important health issues facing our world's populations. The volume's individual contributors represent a wide range of prestigious health organizations and institutions including the World Health Organization, National Academy of Sciences, Kellogg and Rockefeller Foundations, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and the American Public Health Association. Edited by C. Everett Koop, Clarence E. Pearson, and M. Roy Schwarz, these never-before-published essays explore the future of international health and explain what will be required in order to provide adequate health and medical care worldwide, especially for underdeveloped countries.Foreword

Jimmy Carter

Introduction

C. Everett Koop

Part One -Countries, Continents, And The World

1 The Future Of The World's Health

Gro Harlem Brundtland

2 Africa

Adetokunbo O. Lucas

3 Latin America And The Caribbean

George A. O. Alleyne

4 Eastern Mediterranean Region

Hussein A. Gezairy

5 Europe

Jo E. Asvall, Richard Alderslade

6 Western Pacific

Shigeru Omi

7 People's Republic Of China

Zhang Wenkang, M. Roy Schwarz

8 India

V. Ramalingaswami

9 Russian Federation

Jack W. Lesar, Yuri M. Komarov, Rafael G. Oganov,

Robert W. Porter

10 United States

J. Michael Mcginnis

11 Mexico

Juan Ramón De La Fuente, Fernando Al³9