Biomedical Engineering for Global Health
eBook - PDF

Biomedical Engineering for Global Health

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Biomedical Engineering for Global Health

About this book

Can technology and innovation transform world health? Connecting undergraduate students with global problems, Rebecca Richards-Kortum examines the interplay between biomedical technology design and the medical, regulatory, economic, social and ethical issues surrounding global health. Driven by case studies, including cancer screening, imaging technologies, implantable devices and vaccines, students learn how the complexities and variation across the globe affect the design of devices and therapies. A wealth of learning features, including classroom activities, project assignments, homework problems and weblinks within the book and online, provide a full teaching package. For visionary general science and biomedical engineering courses, this book will inspire students to engage in solving global issues that face us all.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series-title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Emerging medical technologies: high stakes science and the need for technology assessment
  9. 2 Bioengineering and technology assessment
  10. 3 Health and economic data: a global comparison
  11. 4 World health and global health challenges
  12. 5 Healthcare systems: a global comparison
  13. 6 Healthcare costs vs. time: trends and drivers
  14. 7 The evolution of technology: scientific method, engineering design, and translational research
  15. 8 Prevention of infectious disease
  16. 9 Ethics of clinical research
  17. 10 Technologies for early detection and prevention of cancer
  18. 11 Cost effectiveness of screening for disease
  19. 12 Technologies for treatment of heart disease
  20. 13 Clinical trial design and sample size calculation
  21. 14 Technology diffusion
  22. 15 Regulation of healthcare technologies
  23. 16 Future of bioengineering and world health
  24. Index