Global Health and Nursing
A New Narrative for the 21st Century

Nurses are critical in addressing the great health challenges we now face. For the first time, Global Health and Nursing provides an overview of global health issues specifically for nurses. Critical topics covered in this exciting new book include the social determinants of health, planetary health, globalisation and migration. It highlights the importance of investment in the nursing profession, the role of gender, and how nurses can find a global voice to become influential leaders as we rebuild health systems post-pandemic. Written by Dr Barbara Stilwell, one of the UK’s most influential nurses and a champion for health workers and strong health systems, the book is suitable for all those interested in global health, including postgraduate nurses, nurse educators, practising nurses and nurses taking global health programmes.

• Written by eminent British nurse, researcher and academic Dr Barbara Stilwell, with contributions from major players in global nursing
• Covers a broad range of issues relevant to all those interested in global health, from the nurse’s viewpoint
• Explores the most critical issues facing world health today, including planetary health, decolonising nursing, nurse migration and nursing in emergencies
• Focus on leadership and how to find a global voice
• Real life case studies drawn from around the world - learn from your peers
• Research-based findings on the effects of COVID on the nursing workforce
• Closely linked to the work of the International Council of Nurses

Chapter 1: Setting the scene. Nurses and the current global context.

Chapter 2: Globalization, economics and power.

Chapter 3: Global role and identity of nurses today.

Chapter 4: Gender and nursing: why it matters to the world

Chapter 5: Nurses and global migration.

Chapter 6: Nurses finding a global voice 1. Becoming influential leaders.

Chapter 7: Nurses finding a global voice 2: The influence of Nursing Now as a global social movement

Chapter 8: The future of global nursing in the 21st century

Dr Stilwell has worked throughout the world as a champion for health workers and strong health systems. Before joining Nursing Now, she was IntraHealth International's senior director of health workforce solutions and recently served as director of a health workforce and systems strengthening project in the West Bank/Gaza. From 1996-2006, she worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) in health systems development, co-authoring the WHO's 2006 Health Report, collecting and analysing data regarding the impact of migrants on health systems in developing countries. Dr Stilwell was one of the first nurse practitioners in the UK, and, in 1991, introduced the first UK-based nurse practitioner programme. In 2008, Stilwell was named one of the most influential nurses of the past 40 years by the UK's Nursing Times.