**Meet the editor**

David Claborn is the Director of the Master of Public Health Program at Missouri State University where he teaches courses in Environmental Health and International Health. He was awarded a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree in 2001 from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, where his dissertation dealt with the reintro-

duction of malaria in South Korea. Prior to his academic career, he was a medical entomologist for the US Navy from which he retired at the rank of commander in 2008. He lives in Springfield, Missouri, with his wife, daughter and two rescue dogs.

Contents

**Preface VII**

David M. Claborn

**Section 2 Culture and Public Health 9**

**Amazon Region 11**

Chapter 3 **Cultural Sensitivities and Health 29**

**Section 3 Conditions of Global Importance 43**

**Resilience over Time 45**

Haleluya Imanueli Moshi

**Section 4 The Military and Global Health 83**

Kip R. Thompson

**Section 1 Background and History of the Field 1**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: What Is Global Health? 3**

Chapter 2 **Globalization and Health in a Small Town in the**

Chuka C. Agunwa and Emmanuel I. Obi

Chapter 4 **Responding to Cholera Outbreaks in Zimbabwe: Building**

Munyaradzi Midzi and Juliet Nabyonga-Orem

Chapter 6 **The Impact of National Militaries on Global Health 85**

Chapter 5 **Physical Trauma and Its Consequences in Rural and Semi-Urban Regions of Low and Middle Income Countries 65**

Viviana Mendes Lima, Sandra M.F. Costa and Helena Ribeiro

Anderson Chimusoro, Stephen Maphosa, Portia Manangazira, Isaac Phiri, Tonderai Nhende, Sydney Danda, Ottias Tapfumanei, Stanley
