Book Review: Textbook of Global Health by A-E. Birn, Y. Pillay and T.H. Holtz

Abstract

Coinciding with a renewed focus on health needs and disease in the global south, the Millennium Development Goal era saw the emergence and widespread use of the term ‘global health’. The term has been associated with greatly increased funding flows and the mobilisation of a panoply of individual and institutional actors under the banner of global health. But what exactly does ‘global health’ mean?