Table of Contents

Part 1: Concepts, Data, Measurement, Explanations 1. Global Health: An Introduction 2. Measuring Population Health and Disease 3. The Determinants of Population Health Part 2: Global Health and Health Transition - Past and Present - Places and Groups 4. Global Health: Where We Are and How We Got There 5. Global Health: Subnational Inequalities 6. Age and Lifecourse Transitions in Health 7. Major Contemporary Challenges in Global Health Part 3: Global Health Futures: Future Transitions and Health Planning 8. Health Systems, Finance and Planning 9. Global Environmental Change and Health 10. Geopolitics, Human Security and Health 11. Global Health Futures?

About the Author

Kevin McCracken is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia and an Honorary Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.


David R. Phillips is a Chair Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia.