Syllabus/achievement requirements

Book

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Plillay and Timothy H. Holtz: Textbook of International Health. Global Health in a Dynamic World, 2009. Oxford University Press. Third edition.

 

Online articles

Barnett, J. and W. N. Adger (2007). Climate change, human security and violent conflict. Political Geography 26(1): 639-655.

Béhague, D. P. and K. T. Storeng (2008). Collapsing the vertical-horizontal divide: an ethnographic study of evidence-based policymaking in maternal health. American Journal of Public Health 98(4): 644-649. 

Berry, N.S. (2008) Who's judging the quality of care? Indigenous Maya and the problem of 'not being attended'. Medical Anthropology 27 (2): 164-89

Birn, A. E. (2011). Small(pox) success? Cien Saude Colet 16(2): 591-597.

Das V., Das R.K,. Coutinho L. (2000) Disease Control and Immunization. A sociologial enquiry. 9 Economic and Political Weekly, 35, (8/9), Feb. 26.

Dutta-Bergman, M. J. (2004). Poverty, structural barriers, and health: a Santali narrative of health communication. Qualitative Health Research 14(8): 1107-1122.

Farmer, P. (2004). An anthropology of structural violence. Current Anthropology 45(3): 305-325.

Farmer, P. (2008). Mother courage and the future of war. Social Analysis 52(2): 165-184.

Filippi, V., C. Ronsmans, et al. (2006). Maternal health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for action. Lancet 368(9546): 1535-1541.

Grundy, J. Country-level governance of global health initiatives: an evaluation of immunization coordination mechanisms in five countries of Asia. Health Policy Plan; 2010 May;25(3):186-96

Hardon, A. and S. Blume (2005). Shifts in global immunisation goals (1984-2004): unfinished agendas and mixed results. Soc Sci Med 60(2): 345-356.

Horton, R. (2013) Health and the post-2015 development agenda. The Lancet, 381(9868) p. 699. (March 2) 

Horton, R. (2013) Offline: A rainbow on my desolate land. The Lancet, 381 (9870) ( March 16) 

Irwin, A. and E. Scali (2007). Action on the social determinants of health: a historical perspective. Global Public Health 2(3): 235-256.

Janes, C. R. and O. Chuluundorj (2004). Free markets and dead mothers: the social ecology of maternal mortality in post-socialist Mongolia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(2): 230-257.

Liden, J. (2013) The Grand Decade for Global Health: 1998-2008. Centre on Global Health Security Working Group Papers. London: Chatham House. 

Marmot, M. (2007). Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes. Lancet 370(9593): 1153-1163.

Millard, W. B. (2010). Starting from scratch: Haiti's earthquake and disaster planning. Ann Emerg Med 55(5): 17A-22A.

Mishra, Arima (2011). Engaging with the discourse on lifestyle modifications: Evidence from India. Health, Culture and Society 1(1): 46-65

Nordfeldt, C. and Roalkvam, S. (2010). Choosing vaccination: Negotiating child protection and good citizenship in modern India Forum for Development Studies. 37(3): 327- 347

Storeng, K. T., S. Drabo, et al. (2013). Too poor to live? A case study of vulnerability and maternal mortality in Burkina Faso. Global Health Promotion 20(1 Suppl): 33-38.

United Nations: The World We Want (2013). Health in the Post-2015 Agenda. Report of the Global Thematic Consultation on Health. April 2013. United Nations: The World We Want: Chapters 4, 5, and 6 

United Nations: The World We Want (2013). High Level Dialogue on Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Gaborone 4-6 March 2013 Meeting Report. United Nations: The World We Want

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