Australia's tobacco plain packaging -- Corporate wellness programs: promoting a healthy workforce -- Growing leadership in eye health in the Pacific Islands region -- Shifting leadership for sustainability: a community-based safe water and nutrition (SWAN) project in Vietnam -- Successful reduction of blood pressure and stroke risk in Japan -- Addressing elder abuse and neglect in a greying Malaysia: the PEACE Initiative -- Community engagement in maternal and newborn health in Eastern Indonesia -- R U OK? The role of community in suicide prevention -- Air pollution and climate change -- Preventing sexual assault on college campuses in the Unite States -- National cancer control in Korea -- Protecting Filipino overseas migrant workers -- mHealth in the Pacific Rim: leadership through technology-based interventions.
Summary:
This timely book serves as an overview of the challenges in global health leadership from multiple perspectives, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics, researchers, and leaders from around the world who are conducting innovative and high-quality research in the field of global health (GH). The book helps illustrate theoretical and conceptual ideas of leadership using recent examples of GH challenges from the Asia-Pacific region.
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