Applied Perspectives of Personal, Public and Global Health

Applied Perspectives of Personal, Public, and Global Health is an introduction for undergraduate students considering a wide variety of human, animal, environmental, and public health, as well as social and public services career paths. With intentionally interdisciplinary perspectives, the basic concepts of physiology, pathophysiology, public and global health sciences and metrics, as well as social, cultural, and environmental determinants of health and common disease burdens are explored. Each chapter includes comparative contexts, data, and stories from the United States, Nepal, and Ethiopia, as well as resources to Dig Deeper by asking important questions. Students will be challenged to consider the rights, responsibilities and privileges associated with health and diseases, and directed to consider the roles of knowledge, access, and culture in better understanding and addressing health problems. The text concludes by examining the complex synergy of multiple environmental and global health threats and introduces the potential of a more holistic One Health perspective long understood by Indigenous communities and traditional healers. Asking ‘what can one person do’, the closing chapter encourages readers to act on what is learned to bridge cultures and build capacity for personal, public, and global health and health equity.