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Global Health Care: Issues and Policies

Author(s): Carol Holtz, RN, PhD, Professor of Nursing, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763738525
  • ISBN-10:0763738522
  • Paperback    639 pages      © 2008
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Overview

In a rapidly changing health care system, Global Health Care Issues and Policies equips students with up-to-date information exploring a variety of global health topics and perspectives. This innovative text prepares readers with a basic perspective and summary of health policy issues throughout various geographical regions and how they are affected by significant world events. Each chapter includes objectives, key terms, cultural, religious, economic, and political influences.

 

Subjects covered include:

  • Culture
  • Religion and health
  • Health research
  • Ethics and health
  • Reproductive health
  • Infectious diseases
  • Chronic diseases
  • Nutrition
  • Mental health
  • Environmental health
  • Aging
  • Ambulatory care
  • Economics and health care
  • Health care insurance

 

 

Key features include:

  • Cultural, religious, economic, and political Influences
  • Case studies
  • Review questions
  • Current research

 

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  • Each chapter includes
    • objectives,
    • key terms,
    • cultural, religious, economic and political influences on chapter topics,
    • case studies,
    • review questions, and
    • current research

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Section I: Foundations of Global Health Issues and Policies: An Overview of Current Worldwide Health Issues and Trends

Chapter 1: US and Other Industrialized Societies

Chapter 2: Developing Societies

Chapter 3: Global Perspectives of Economics and Health Care

Chapter 4: Global Perspectives of Politics and Public Health Policy

Chapter 5: Global Health Research Methods

Chapter 6: International Research Ethics

Section II: Special Global Health Care Issues

Chapter 7: Infectious Diseases from a Global Perspective

Chapter 8: Global Use of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Treatments

Chapter 9: Global Perspectives of Cardiac and Renal Chronic

Chapter 10: Global Perspectives of Diabetes, Respiratory and Orthopedic Chronic Diseases

Chapter 11: Overview of Cancer for Allied Healthcare Professionals: A Public Health Perspective

Chapter 12: Global Perspectives on Violence, Injury, and Occupational Healthcare

Chapter 13: Global Perspectives on Nutrition

Chapter 14: Global Perspectives on Mental Health

Chapter 15: Global Perspectives on Environmental Health

Section III: Lifespan Health Issues

Chapter 16: Global Health in Reproduction and Infants

Chapter 17: Global Health of Children

Chapter 18: Global Health of the Older Adult

Section IV: Worldwide Issues and Trends by Specific Country

Chapter 19: Establishing Nursing and Medical Education Programs in the Country of Georgia

Chapter 20: A Unique Perspective on Health Care in Panama

Chapter 21: Health and Environmental Design: The Realtionship Between Health and Place in a Philippine Urban Setting

Chapter 22: Building Cultural Competence: A Nursing Practicum in Oaxaca, Mexico


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Carol Holtz, RN, PhD-Professor of Nursing, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia

Dr. Carol Holtz is beginning her thirtieth year of teaching at Kennesaw State University (greater Atlanta, Georgia).  She is a Professor of Nursing at the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, School of Nursing  and teaches Parent-Child Nursing, Community Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, International Health, and the Nursing Practicum in Oaxaca, Mexico.  She is also teaching courses  addressing  vulnerable populations’ health and healthcare within the Doctor of Nursing Science Degree Program.  Dr. Holtz works with students in the clinical sites of Grady Memorial Hospital and the Cobb County Health Department.   Dr. Holtz serves as the elected Vice Chair of the Cobb County Board of Health and Cobb Community Services Board.  She is past president of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Georgia State University and current Board Member of the Mu Phi Chapter of Kennesaw State University. She is also a member of Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, and an elected member of the Scholars Organization of the International Transcultural Nursing Society.  She has been a guest lecturer at the Traditional Chinese Medical University in Nanjing, China, at the Medical University at Yangzhou, China, and Xinjiang Medical University in Urumqi, China, at the School of Nursing at Baguio, Philippines, and at Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt. 

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  • "The text is well suited for a curriculum having global health care as a thread, or it would be a great text for a course on International/global health for nursing, allied health and possibly students enrolled in an international business course with a health emphasis. It is my belief nursing education should prepare our students to think more globally so their practice reflects a broader more culturally sensitive philosophy."

    -- Sandra Sayles, PhD, RN, Professor - NSULA

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International Health Policy

Nursing Education

Health Care Issues and Trends

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