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?