Professor of Health Policy Imperial College Business School & Institute for Global Health Peter C Smith's Books

Massacre at Tobruk

The British Assault on Rommel, 1942

By: Professor of Health Policy Imperial College Business School & Institute for Global Health Peter C Smith

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Massacre at Tobruk

The British Assault on Rommel, 1942

By: Professor of Health Policy Imperial College Business School & Institute for Global Health Peter C Smith

Minute-by-minute account of the offensive Covers both the British attackers and the German defenders Explains how and why the assault failed so badly In the late summer of 1942, Rommel's Afrika Korps stood perilously close to breaking through to Cairo and the Nile, having already taken the fortress of Tobruk. In a desperate effort to halt the Germans and buy time for the Allies, British forces--including the Royal Marines, Royal Navy, the SAS, and the Long Range Desert Group--attempted to storm Tobruk and destroy the Axis port there. The operation failed with terrible losses. Peter C. Smith unearths many previously unrevealed facts and highlights the bravery and endurance of those who participated.

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Stackpole Books

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0811750558

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9780811750554

Globalization and Health

By: Ichiro Kawachi,Sarah Wamala

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Globalization and Health

By: Ichiro Kawachi,Sarah Wamala

Globalization is breaking down economic, political, cultural, demographic, and social barriers across the world at an astonishing pace. The topic of globalization can arouse passionate debate in many circles including academic journals, the popular media, and even on the streets. This new world order is marked by new actors, new rules of governance, new forms of communication, and the global movement of populations. Health is an exquisitely sensitive mirror of social conditions, and the authors of this book argue that the assessment of health is an important criterion for evaluating and monitoring the progress of globalization. This book provides an analysis of the most serious global threats to health, the tools that can be used to evaluate them, and the international agencies established to respond to them. Medical threats such as infectious diseases, obesity, tobacco use, and global climate change are discussed, but the authors also expand their scope to include socio-political health impacts such as economic inequality. The complex role of organizations such as the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank is also analyzed, as is the increasing interconnectedness of health and non-health actors. Is this blurring of boundaries really beneficial to the public's health, or have these actors abandoned health issues for power politics? By drawing together an international group of health experts,Globalization and Health provides a comprehensive account of the successes and failures, as well as the challenges and opportunities of globalization for public health.

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Oxford University Press

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0199748144

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9780199748143

Africa's Health Challenges

Sovereignty, Mobility of People and Healthcare Governance

By: Dr Hany Besada,Professor Andrew F Cooper,Professor Franklyn Lisk,Professor John J. Kirton

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Africa's Health Challenges

Sovereignty, Mobility of People and Healthcare Governance

By: Dr Hany Besada,Professor Andrew F Cooper,Professor Franklyn Lisk,Professor John J. Kirton

This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africa’s health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile Africa'. The collected set of specialized contributions in this volume examines how national and regional policy innovation can address the competing conception of sovereignty in dealing with Africa’s emerging healthcare problems in a fast-paced, interconnect world.

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270

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472400119

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9781472400116

Social Injustice and Public Health

By: Barry Levy,Victor Sidel

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Social Injustice and Public Health

By: Barry Levy,Victor Sidel

Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book, on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books, War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health, both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more comprehensive manner. This book defines social injustice as the denial or violation of economic, sociocultural, political, civil, or human rights of specific populations or groups in society. These groups are socially defined in terms of racial or ethnic status, language, country of origin, socioeconomic status, age, gender, sexual orientation or other perceived group characterisitics. Social injustice manifests in many ways ranging from various forms of overt discrimination to the wide gaps between the "haves" and the "have-nots" within a country or between richer and poorer countries. It increases the prevalence of risk factors and hazardous exposures, which in turn lead to higher rates of disease, injury, disability, and premature death. Public health professionals as well as students need to have a clear understanding of social injustice in order to address these problems, but few books address such a wide range of issues. This book will enable readers to understand social injustice and will prepare them to recognize, document, investigate, and prevent social injustice and its effects on health. This book is organized so that health professionals, students in the health professions, and others will find it of practical value in public health and medical care, research, education, policy development, and advocacy.

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Oxford University Press

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0199759863

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9780199759866

Textbook of Global Health

By: Anne-Emanuelle Birn,Timothy H. Holtz,Yogan Pillay

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Textbook of Global Health

By: Anne-Emanuelle Birn,Timothy H. Holtz,Yogan Pillay

Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition equips students, advocates, and health professionals with building blocks for a critical understanding of global health. It explores societal determinants of health and health inequities within and between countries and an array of actions seeking to address these issues in spheres of health and development aid, solidarity cooperation, global and domestic policymaking, and civil society mobilization

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0199392315

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Massacre at Tobruk

Massacre at Tobruk

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Globalization and Health

Africa's Health Challenges

Africa's Health Challenges

Social Injustice and Public Health

Social Injustice and Public Health

Textbook of Global Health

Textbook of Global Health

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