Global Health: Changing Health Technology - Hardcover

by Tandy Rocco (Editor)

Global health is an area of study, research, and practice that focuses on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people around the world. The objectives of global health include improving worldwide health, reducing disparities, and protecting global threats that overlook national borders. It consists of various perspectives that emphasize the factors and administration of health in international contexts. Medicine, epidemiology, demography, economics, and other social sciences such as sociology, development studies, psychology, anthropology, cultural studies and law, can help in recognizing the determinants of health in societies. Technology plays a major role in the advancement of healthcare and medicine. Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), healthcare trackers, wearables, sensors, telehealth, and telemedicine, etc. are now being used increasingly to make the healthcare systems cheaper, faster, and more effective in managing diseases. The topics included in this book on global health and health technology are of utmost significance and will provide incredible insights to the readers. It will help the readers in keeping pace with the rapid changes in this field.