Global health. The current scenario and future perspectives

18 and planet Earth, given the imbalances of global capitalism and the incompetence of nation-states. Some recommendations are proposed in this sense: to renew large-scale health promotion, to change the determining structures of the world economy, to modify the unequal relationships between countries and human beings, to reaffirm a salutogenic relationship between human beings and nature and the environment, to transform locally ecological sustainable economies, to strengthen primary health care and public health by redirecting the use of power in the world towards local contingents within the framework of globality (glocalization) (Franco Giraldo, 2021). Another path for developing global public health will be given by the paradigmatic renewal of this discipline as a field of knowledge. Understood as a new discipline for action concerning population health worldwide (global public policies) about governance and international diplomacy within a new architecture of power (a new set of actors in international relations). It is needed to advance in constructing a Latin American or peripheral or global South perspective on global health, which promotes the defense of rights and new global health governance (Franco-Giraldo, 2016). In this line of thoughts, one of the most pressing concerns from the academic perspective has been the definition of disciplinary and thematic areas of global health. This book from Universidad de Chile accomplishes this, as can be explored in its thematic content: it not only collects the most innovative topics at the forefront of health knowledge but also the central issues of globalization, which it categorizes and analyzes, outlining a path for the development of this field of knowledge. In line with a Latin American and counter-hegemonic perspective, it raises the issue of global health and, hand in hand with this, addresses global health governance and the role of academia, which is crucial for contemporary transdisciplinary debate. This same segment analyzes economic inequality and development, the main social determinants of global health. Another well-studied area in this text is that of global risks to the planet and human health, including globalization and the environment, biodiversity and human health, and the unpredictable climate change, the most challenging of our ills. The book also outlines the epidemiological profile from a global perspective and the health crisis, given by emerging and re-emerging diseases, non-communicable diseases linked to diet, and the most current and invisible problem to date: global mental health. As a corollary, the strategy of one health with an interdisciplinary and trans sectoral approach. Another transnational area focuses on the most specific issues of the globalization era: international migration and its emphasis on Latin America, which impacts and overwhelms health systems, as well as the