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MPH 530.001: Global Public Health Challenges: E-Reader

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Journal Articles

Week 2

Brown, T. M., Cueto, M., & Fee, E. (2006). The World Health Organization and the transition from "international" to "global" public health. American Journal of Public Health, 96(1), 62-72. doi:102105/AJPH2004.050831

Fried, L.P., Bentley, M.E., Buekens, P., Burke, D.S., Frenk, J.J., Klag, M.J., & Spencer, H.C. (2010). Global health is public health. Lancet,  375(9714), 535-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60203-6.

Week 3

Brodin, P., Jojic, V., Gao, T., Bhattacharya, S., Angel, C. L., Furman, D., & ... Davis, M. M. (2015). Variation in the human immune system is largely driven by non-heritable influences. Cell, 160(1-2), 37-47. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.12.020

  Marmot, Michael. (2005). Social determinants of health inequalities. Lancet, 365(9464), 1099-104.

  Marmot, M., Friel, S., Bell, R., Houweling, T. J., & Taylor, S. (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: health equity    through action on the social determinants of health. Lancet (London, England), 372(9650), 1661-1669. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61690-6

Dressler, W. W., Oths, K. S., & Gravlee, C. C. (2005). Race and ethnicity in public health research: models to explain health disparities. Annual Review of Anthropology, 34(1), 231-252. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120505
 

Week 4

Schieber, G. J., Gottret, P., Fleisher, L. K., & Leive, A. A. (2007). Financing global health: mission unaccomplished. Health Affairs, 26(4), 921-934. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.26.4.921

Braveman, P., & Tarimo, E. (2002). Social inequalities in health within countries: not only an issue for affluent nations. Social Science & Medicine, 54(11), 1621.

Gruskin, S., Mills, E.J., & Tarantola, D. (2007). History, principles, and practice of health and human rights. Lancet, 370 (9585), 449-55.

Week 5

World Health Organization. (2000). The world health report 2000: Health systems : improving performance. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Baltussen, R. (2006). Priority setting of public spending in developing countries: Do not try to do everything for everybody. Health Policy, 78(2–3),149-156.

Week 6 

Szlezák, N. A., Bloom, B. R., Jamison, D. T., Keusch, G. T., Michaud, C. M., Moon, S., & Clark, W. C. (2010). The global health system: actors, norms, and expectations in transition. Plos Medicine, 7(1), e1000183. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000183

Blumenthal, D., & Hsiao, W. (2005). Privatization and its discontents--the evolving Chinese health care system. New England Journal of Medicine, 353(11), 1165-70.

Coovadia, H., Jewkes, R., Barron, P., Sanders, D., & McIntyre, D. (2009). The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges. Lancet, 374(9692), 817-34. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60951-X.

World Health Organization. (2007). Everybody's business: Strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes : WHO's framework for action. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Week 8

Andre, F. E., Booy, R., Bock, H. L., Clemens, J., Datta, S. K., John, T. J., & ... Schmitt, H. J. (2008). Vaccination greatly reduces disease, disability, death and inequity worldwide. Bulletin of The World Health Organization, 86(2), 140-146.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2013). The Truth About ACEs Infographic. RWJF Website.

Hill, K., Thomas, K., AbouZahr, C., Walker, N., Say, L., Inoue, M., & Suzuki, E.; Maternal Mortality Working Group.  (2007). Estimates of maternal mortality worldwide between 1990 and 2005: an assessment of available data. Lancet, 370(9595), 1311-9.

Schiavo, R., Gonzalez-Flores, M., Ramesh, R., & Estrada-Portales, I. (2011). Taking the pulse of progress toward preconception health: Preliminary assessment of a national OMH program for infant mortality prevention. Journal of Communications in Healthcare, 4(2), 106-117.

Week 9

Hunter, D. J., & Reddy, K. S. (2013). Noncommunicable diseases. The New England Journal of Medicine, 369(14), 1336-1343. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1109345

McKeown, R.E. (2009). The epidemiologic transition: changing patterns of mortality and population dynamics. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 3(1 Suppl), 19S-26S.

Leach, M., Scoones, I., & Stirling, A.  (2010). Governing epidemics in an age of complexity: Narratives, politics and pathways to sustainability. Global Environmental Change, 20(3), 369–377.

Schiavo, R., Leung, M.M., & Brown, M. (2014). Communicating risk and promoting disease mitigation measures in epidemics and emerging disease settings. Pathogens & Global Health, 108(2), 76-94.

Week 10

Ng, M., Fleming, T., Robinson, M., Thomson, B., Graetz, N., Margono, C., & ... Gakidou, E. (2014). Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet (London, England), 384(9945), 766-781. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60460-8

Week 11

Global Health Alliance. (2013). Global Health Workforce Crisis - Key Messages. WHO Website.

Aluttis, C., Bishaw, T., & Frank, M.W. (2014). The workforce for health in a globalized context--global shortages and international migration. Global Health Action, 7(23611).  doi: 10.3402/gha.v7.23611.

World Health Organization. (2014). Health Workforce 2030: A global strategy on human resources for health. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Week 12

Almedom, A.M., & Summerfield, D. (2004). Mental well-being in settings of 'complex emergency': an overview. Journal of Biosocial Science, 36(4), 381-8.