Global Health and Nursing
A New Narrative for the 21st Century
$63.59
- Paperback
252 pages
- Release Date
21 July 2024
Summary
Nurses are critical in addressing the great health challenges we now face. For the first time, Global Health and Nursing provides an overview of global health issues specifically for nurses. Critical topics covered in this exciting new book include the social determinants of health, planetary health, globalisation and migration. It highlights the importance of investment in the nursing profession, the role of gender, and how nurses can find a global voice to become influential leader…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780323877800 |
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| ISBN-10: | 032387780X |
| Author: | Barbara Stilwell |
| Publisher: | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division |
| Imprint: | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 252 |
| Release Date: | 21 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 191mm |
About The Author
Barbara Stilwell
Dr. Stilwell has worked throughout the world as a champion for health workers and strong health systems. Before joining Nursing Now, she was IntraHealth International’s senior director of health workforce solutions and recently served as director of a health workforce and systems strengthening project in the West Bank/Gaza. From 1996-2006, she worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) in health systems development, co-authoring the WHO’s 2006 Health Report, collecting and analysing data regarding the impact of migrants on health systems in developing countries. Dr. Stilwell was one of the first nurse practitioners in the UK, and, in 1991, introduced the first UK-based nurse practitioner programme. In 2008, Stilwell was named one of the most influential nurses of the past 40 years by the UK’s Nursing Times.
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