International Health: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 3rd Edition

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We live in an era where someone can contract an infectious disease in Hong Kong, get on a plane, and land in New York City before the incubation period is over. We also live in a time where the wealthiest one percent of people control 34 times more than the wealth of the entire bottom 50 percent of the world’s population. Climate change, mass migration, war, and the rise of Artificial Intelligence all pose challenges to maintaining the health of our human species. And yet we march on, beating back illness, disadvantage and suffering, inch by inch.

International Health: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, now in its third edition, is meant for undergraduate students of health sciences. It offers a grounding in issues in international development and population health. Dr Raywat Deonandan covers epidemiology, economics, history, political science, and many other disciplines as he presents the issues of the day, how we can think about, measure and address them.

In September of 2024, it became an Amazon Canada #1 bestseller in three categories:

Images from the Book

Chapter 2

Figure 1- Life expectancy at birth and GDP per capita, 2015. Data from OECD.
Figure 2- A variety of factors influence whether one nation is poorer than another
Figure 3 – Partition of Africa, ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Figure 4 – The Flow of Goods Between Europe and Colonial Africa
Figure 5 – Cartoon depicting the Conference of Berlin, by François Maréchal, Dec 20, 1884

Chapter 5

Figure 6 – Life expectancy in the United States from 1850 to 2000. Re-created from data from www.longecity.org
Figure 7 – Average per-year change in life expectancy at birth (age 0) and age 60 years, by country and sex, from 2015 to 2019, and total change from 2019 to 2020. Source: Int J Epidemiol. 2022 Feb; 51(1): 63–74.

Chapter 6

Figure 8 – The inverted-U relationship between wealth and obesity
Figure 9 – Visualization of computation of LICO for a Canadian family of 4 in 1992 (Source: Statistics Canada)
Figure 10 – Millennium Development Goal #1: The number of people living on less than $1.25 a day has been reduced from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 836 million in 2015.
Figure 11 – Domains of indicators that define the Human Poverty Index
Figure 12 – The ten indicators that define the Multidimensional Poverty Index (Source: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative)

Chapter 9

Figure 13 – Remittance Flows to Low Income Countries (source: Migration and Development Brief 32, World Bank (2020))

Chapter 10

Figure 14 – Aboriginal (light lines) vs non-Aboriginal (dark lines) populations by age group (Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021)
Figure 15 – Aboriginal vs non-Aboriginal populations by age group (Source: Statistics Canada, 2021)

Chapter 11

Figure 16 – UK Birth and Death Rates , 1700-1840
Figure 17 – Population of Yemen from 1965 to 2005, in thousands of inhabitants. Re-created from data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
Figure 18 – Female fertility rate of selected North African countries, 2012. Compiled from UN Indicator Database

Chapter 11

Figure 19 – Estimated prevalence of hunger. Source: FAO (2024). The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.
Figure 20 – Useful indicators for measuring hunger at the population level
Figure 21 – GHI estimates for Canada
Figure 22 – 2010 GHI estimates for selected Asian countries

Chapter 12

Figure 23 – The water supply of a Guyanese Amerindian village, 2010 Courtesy of Raywat Deonandan

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