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Public health concerns are no longer confined by geographic areas as international travel and trade easily transcend national borders. For example, pandemics, tobacco use, health care access, and non-communicable diseases (such as diabetes, obesity, asthma), present major challenges to our world population. Global health is highly interdisciplinary in nature with legal, medical, economic, and social aspects with an evolving role for international law.

Global Health Justice and Governance by Prah Ruger
Call Number: Online
This 2018 ebook lays out the critical problems facing the world today and offers a new theory of justice and governance as a way to resolve these seemingly intractable issues. In a world of staggering inequalities, epidemics, and inadequacies of current models a new architecture of central health systems is desperately needed.
Research Handbook on Global Health Law
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This 2018 ebook is a comprehensive study on the treatment of health issues in international legal regimes and explores the role of international law in addressing the most prominent global health challenges.
Global Health Law by Lawrence O. Gostin
Call Number: Online and K3570 .G67 2014
This eBook looks at staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. Gostin shows how critical it is for institutions and international agreements to focus not only on illness but also on the essential conditions that enable people to stay healthy throughout their lifespan: nutrition, clean water, mosquito control, and tobacco reduction. He proposes major reforms of global health institutions and governments to ensure better coordination, more transparency, and accountability. advocacy, and public discourse in global health.

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Global Health Law Research Guide

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