Document Type
Article
Version
Author's Final Manuscript
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
Within its 150 year history, public health has grown from a focus on local communities, to include country-wide, then international and now global perspectives. Using the United Nation’s Millennium Goals as its primary framework, this article provides an overview of global public health within the broadest possible context of the world and all of its peoples. Also provided are discussions of the global burden of disease as measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), global health statistics, current health priorities and recommendations for action by social workers and other health professionals.
Citation
Toba Schwaber Kerson and Jessica Euna Lee, "Global Health," Encyclopedia of Social Work Online (2014). http://socialwork.oxfordre.com/