Kelley Lee is professor, associate dean and director of Global
Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
and professor of Global Health Policy at the London School of
Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Jennifer Fang is research assistant in the Faculty of Health
Sciences, Simon Fraser University.
International documents collections and medical libraries where
international health and health policy are important will want to
add this resource to their collections.
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An upgrade of an invaluable sourcebook, Lee and Fang’s second
edition approaches the history of WHO with a 14-page time line and
a 40-page introduction to individual agencies and programs. Events
from the past 15 years—monitoring of noncommunicable diseases,
bioethics, and treatment distribution—indicate the direction and
intent of global initiatives. The authors add commentary on an HIV
vaccine and recent studies of alcohol, cancer, cardiovascular
disease, deafness, diabetes, diarrhea, and food-borne illness.
Recommended for public and academic libraries, particularly as a
replacement for the original, 1998 edition.
*Booklist*
This dictionary by Lee (Simon Fraser Univ.; London School of
Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Fang (Simon Fraser Univ.) is a
substantially revised and expanded follow-up to Lee's first edition
(CH, Dec'98, 36-1936). Featuring more than 1,000 entries, the
volume has nearly doubled in size. Updates include the
introduction, which provides an excellent overview of the World
Health Organization, its history, and current challenges.
Appendixes contain the constitution of the WHO, a list of member
states by year of membership, programs by region, organizational
structure over time, and a list of WHO directors-general and
regional directors. A comprehensive bibliography completes the
volume. As with the rest of the books in this series, no index is
included; however, the authors attempt to remedy this with an
extensive network of see also references, both within the entries
and as stand-alone items. This is a welcome addition, especially to
an e-reference collection. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level
undergraduates through researchers/faculty
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