An Introduction to Global Health presents a broad yet detailed overview of population health in developing countries. This text carefully examines the factors that influence a community’s health status, and determines the effectiveness of modern aids solutions against war, governance, and contamination. Essential for university-level students, this provocative book provides answers to questions concerning the disparity between the rise of healthier, richer populations and the continued existence of impoverished, disease-ridden countries.

With Obidimma Ezezika as the new author, this third edition draws on contemporary references, statistics, and figures, rendering its exploration of international health timely and relevant. It also includes a section on topical health issues in light of the new Sustainable Development Goals, and maintains a critical focus on poor population health status, problems of poverty and malnutrition, world debt relief, and human rights interventions.

Michael Seear is a Staff Physician in the Department of Respiratory/Intensive Care at the Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Dr. Michael Seear has been actively involved in international health initiatives for over 25 years. He also teaches at the University of British Columbia.

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Obidimma Ezezika is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough and in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and the Founder of the African Centre for Innovation and Leadership Development, where he leads a number of global health and food security initiatives.

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“This text is an excellent overview of global health from a Canadian point of view. It is thorough, current, well-referenced, and eminently readable. The authors have added relevant material on social determinants of health. They weave the Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 throughout, setting the targets against the existing burden of disease.”

—Anne Fanning, Professor Emeritus & Past Coordinator of the Global Health Initiative, University of Alberta

“This new edition of An Introduction to Global Health demonstrates how the universalization of health can be the great human equalizer, humanizer, and socializer. With a strong focus on the health of women and children and closing the gap between the rich and the poor, the book explores critical issues for our time, including how war, poverty, and malnutrition affect health and how working towards justice, equality, and freedom can move us closer to the goal of health for all.”

—Izzeldin Abuelaish, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto