| PowerPoint presentations, unless otherwise indicated: |
| Mon 14 Nov |
Overview of disease at a global level - Professor Paolo Vineis |
| Tues 15 Nov |
Access to health care: challenges of delivering services to rural and remote populations in Guyana [pdf] - Mr Terrence Simmons |
| Reading: |
| British Medical Association: Board of Science, Healthcare in a rural setting, 2005 |
| European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association, EURIPA. A collaborative analysis of public health and health service issues in rural areas. 1999 |
| Ryan-Nicholls KD, Racher FE. Investigating the health of rural communities: toward a framework development. Rural and Remote Health 4: 244, 2004 |
| Rygh EM, Hjortdahl P: Continuous and integrated health care services in rural areas. A literature study. Rural and Remote Health 7: 766, 2007 |
| Rural Policy Research Institute. Defining rural: Definitions of rural areas in the US, 2001 |
| Halton J: Improving the health of rural Australians. Rural and Remote Health 5: 487, 2005 |
Bushy, A: A Landscape View of Life and Health Care in Rural Settings. Chapter 2: The Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics: a Practical Guide for Professionals. Dartmouth College Press 2009 |
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| Small area studies [pdf] - Dr Lea Fortunato |
| Wed 16 Nov |
Confounding and effect modification - Dr Marta Blangiardo |
| Practical [Word] + Exercises [Word] + Solutions [Word] - Dr Marta Blangiardo |
| Thurs 17 Nov |
Reading: Complex causal process diagrams for analyzing the health impacts of policy interventions - March 2006, Vol 96, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health |
| Health, livelihoods, and nutrition in low-income rural systems [pdf] - Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol 28, no.2 (supplement) ©2007, The United Nations University |
| Use of graphical approaches to understand poverty and health [pdf] - Dr Michael Joffe |
| Energy and health - Dr Michael Joffe |
| Fri 18 Nov |
Blood pressure and hypertension [pdf] - Professor Majid Ezzati |
| Mon 21 Nov |
The conundrum of diabetes and obesity, and the built environment - Professor Paolo Vineis |
| Tues 22 Nov |
Malnutrition in children - Dr Tom Lissauer |
Introduction to cohort studies: design and key points [pdf] - Dr Marc Chadeau-Hyam |
| Wed 23 Nov |
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| Nutritional epidemiology as a public health science + part 2 - Dr Anne-Claire Vergnaud |
| Practical statistical analysis of a cohort study: answers [Word] - Dr Anne-Claire Vergnaud |
| Mon 28 Nov |
Genes and the environment - Professor Paolo Vineis |
| Reading: P Vineis, Individual susceptibility to carcinogens [pdf] |
| After reading the paper, how can you summarize the three main messages? |
| How would you describe the distribution of susceptibility to carcinogens? |
| Do you think these principles also apply to other hazards and diseases? Why? |
| What are the practical implications of this conception of susceptibility? For example for genetic screening? |
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| Practical: Genetic susceptiblity [Word] - Professor Paolo Vineis |
| Tues 29 Nov |
From genetics to epigenetics [pdf] - Dr James Flanagan |
| Wed 30 Nov |
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| Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and biomarkers for CVD [pdf] - Professor Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin |
| Case-control study on cardiovascular disease [pdf] - Dr Queenie Chan |
| Fri 2 Dec |
Reading: Safe motherhood initiative: 20 years and counting [pdf] - www.thelancet.com Vol 368, 30 September 2006. Recommended reading: The Lancet Maternal Survival Series |
| Maternal health and mortality [pdf] - Professor Lesley Regan |
Wrap-up of week 3 - Professor Paolo Vineis |
| Mon 5 Dec |
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| The era of chemical hazards [pdf] - Dr Toby Athersuch |
| Tues 6 Dec |
Carcinogenesis [pdf] - Professor Petra Peeters |
| Wed 7 Dec |
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Occupational and environmental cancers: aromatic amines, PCBs and metals - Rachel Kelly |
| Thurs 8 Dec |
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| Global health and the tobacco industry [pdf] - Dr Benjamin Hawkins |
Multicentric case-control study on malignant mesothelioma and non-occupational exposure to asbestos - Karin van Veldhoven |
| Fri 9 Dec |
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| Refugee health and care of survivors of torture + pdf version - Robin Ewart-Biggs |
| What causes asthma? - Dr Neil Pearce |
| Mon 12 Dec |
Water quality, quantity and climate change [pdf] - Pauline Scheelbeek |
| Tues 13 Dec |
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| Climate change and health-reducing risks in an uncertain future [pdf] - Professor Sir Andy Haines |
| Climate change mitigation and why dealing with CO2 is so difficult [pdf] - Dr Simon Buckle |
| Wed 14 Dec |
| Reading: An addiction agency's collaboration with the drinks industry: Moo Joose as a case study [pdf] - Addiction, 99, 1370–1374 |
| Selling addictions: similarities in approaches between big tobacco and big booze [pdf] - Australasian Medical Journal AMJ 2010, 3, 6, 325-332 |
| The global alcohol industry: an overview [pdf] - Addiction, 104 (Suppl. 1), 6–12 |
| International trade agreements: a threat to tobacco control policy - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com |
| Lee, D: Understanding the WTO dispute settlement process [pdf], in Hocking, B and McGuire, S (eds) (2004) Trade Politics, Second Edition, London: Routledge |
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| Seminar role-play: US-Indonesia WTO dispute [Word] - Dr Ben Hawkins |
| Group allocations [Word] |
| The role of the commercial sector in global health [pdf] - Dr Benjamin Hawkins |
| Tobacco product regulation and the WTO: US – Clove cigarettes [pdf] - O'Neill Institute |
| Fri 16 Dec |
Wrap-up on study design and statistics [pdf] - Professor Paolo Vineis |