Global Health and Nursing
A New Narrative for the 21st Century
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2024
- Author: Barbara Stilwell
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 7 8 0 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 7 8 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 8 0 4 1 - 1
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 specif… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNurses 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 leaders as we rebuild health systems post-pandemic. Written by Dr Barbara Stilwell, one of the UK’s most influential nurses and a champion for health workers and strong health systems, the book is suitable for all those interested in global health, including postgraduate nurses, nurse educators, practising nurses and nurses taking global health programmes.
Chapter 1: Setting the scene. Nurses and the current global context.
Chapter 2: Globalization, economics and power.
Chapter 3: Global role and identity of nurses today.
Chapter 4: Gender and nursing: why it matters to the world
Chapter 5: Nurses and global migration.
Chapter 6: Nurses finding a global voice 1. Becoming influential leaders.
Chapter 7: Nurses finding a global voice 2: The influence of Nursing Now as a global social movement
Chapter 8: The future of global nursing in the 21st century
Chapter 2: Globalization, economics and power.
Chapter 3: Global role and identity of nurses today.
Chapter 4: Gender and nursing: why it matters to the world
Chapter 5: Nurses and global migration.
Chapter 6: Nurses finding a global voice 1. Becoming influential leaders.
Chapter 7: Nurses finding a global voice 2: The influence of Nursing Now as a global social movement
Chapter 8: The future of global nursing in the 21st century
- No. of pages: 252
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323877800
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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.
Affiliations and expertise
Executive Director,
Nursing Now Global Campaign