Colour photographs, Colour illustrations
128 pages, 246 x 189 mm
Publisher:
Earthscan
Winner of the BMA Board of Science Award for the Public Understanding of Science and the BMA Medical Book Award for Public Health.
This is a major new graphic profile of global health. The atlas maps the causes and incidences of the major diseases as well as the economic, social and environmental factors that impact on people's health worldwide. Bringing together the latest data and charting recent trends in health and disease, it also addresses how health needs are identified, health policy is developed and the delivery and quality of health services.
The atlas covers a wide range of topics including:
Life expectacy
Malnutrition and obesity
Water and sanitation
Cancer
Tobacco and alcohol
Migration and refugees
Infectious diseases, from malaria to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis
Urbanisation.
Diarmuid O'Donovan is senior lecturer in Social & Preventive Medicine at the National University of Ireland, Galway and Director of Public Health in the Health Service Executive, Western Area. A medical doctor based in Ireland, with postgraduate training in general practice and public health, he has has worked in Ireland, UK, Zambia and the Gambia. A consultant to Irish Aid on health and development issues, he also chairs the Irish Forum for Global Health.
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