Year 4 BSc 2011-12
Module leader
Dr Mariam Sbaiti
Global health module 3
Tuesday 3 January - Friday 3 February 2012

Module 3: Global health in context: poverty, development and governance - timetable + handbook [Word]

In-course assessment: all BSc courses now require students to submit written coursework only in this template format [Word]. Please use this when preparing your ICA 1 (short essay).

In-course assessment essay examples: Peru: country health assessment [Word]
Health systems in developing countries: Vietnam [Word]

PowerPoint presentations, unless otherwise indicated:
Tues 3 Jan
Reading: A glossary for social epidemiology - J Epidemiol Community Health 2001; 55: 693–700
Household headship and child nutrition: a case study in Western Kenya [pdf] - Social Science and Medicine, vol 39, No.12, 1994
Introduction [pdf] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti
Social epidemiology frameworks [Word] - Dr Laura Robertson
Theoretical framework [pdf] - Dr Laura Robertson
HIV risk [pdf] - Dr Laura Robertson
Causal pathways to sexual health in orphans: an example of the use of theoretical frameworks in social epidemiology [pdf] - Dr Laura Robertson
Wed 4 Jan
Read Chapter 1 from Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, 5th edition by D Coggon, Geoffrey Rose and DJP Barker

Impact and process evaluation of integrated community and clinic-based HIV-1 control - PLoS Medicine | www.plosmedicine.org, March 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 3 | e102
Epidemiological methods for determining health in populations [pdf] - Dr Laura Robertson
Demographic data [pdf] - Professor Simon Gregson
Practical aspects of field-based research [pdf] - Professor Simon Gregson
Thurs 5 Jan
Reading: A critical examination of summary measures of population health [pdf]
Population health metrics: crucial inputs to the development of evidence for health policy - Population Health Metrics 2003, 1
Measuring population health concepts and applications [pdf] - Professor Majid Ezzati
Fri 6 Jan
Reading: Towards good practice for health statistics [pdf] - Lancet 2007; 369: 862–73
Explaining the social gradient in coronary heart disease - www.jech.com
Inequalities in population health [pdf] - Professor Majid Ezzati
Controversies in health statistics [pdf] - Richard Horton
Mon 9 Jan Introduction to week 2 [pdf] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti
Health systems and policy - Professor Peter Smith
Building a health system [pdf] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti, Dr Katharina Hauck
Tues 10 Jan Health systems performance measurement - Professor Peter Smith
Wed 11 Jan
Reading: Removing user fees for primary care in Africa: the need for careful action [pdf] - BMJ VOLUME 331 1 OCTOBER 2005 bmj.com
Governance and accountability in health systems - Professor Peter Smith
Access to health care in Sierra Leone [pdf] - Fred Martineau
Thurs 12 Jan

Recommended reading:
Russell A (2005). Treatment-seeking behaviour in urban Sri Lanka: Trusting the state, trusting private providers. Social Science & Medicine, Vol 61( 7): 1396-1407

Bloom G, Champion C, Lucas H, Peters D and Standing H (2009). Making health markets work better for poor people: improving provider performance [pdf] Future Health Systems Working Paper 6. Available at: www.futurehealthsystems.org

Travis P and Cassels A (2006). Safe in their hands? Bulletin of the World Health Organization 84(6): A.

Sengupta A and Nundy S (2005). Editorial: The private health sector in India. BMJ 331: 1157.

Suggested Reading:
Mackay B (2008). From life insurance to safer sex - Reflections of a marketing man, Social Science & Medicine 66 (10):2168-2172

Mills A, Brugha R Hanson K and McPake B (2002). What can be done about the private health sector in low-income countries? [pdf] Bulletin of the World Health Organization 80 (4):325-330.

WHO (2005). Working with the non-state sector to achieve public health goals. Working Paper 2 of the Working Group on the Non-State Sector Department of Health System Policies and Operations Evidence and Information for Policy, WHO.

Chapter 3: The service encounter [pdf] by Palmer
The private sector in health in developing countries [pdf] - David de Ferranti
Private health markets in developing countries - Bruce Mackay
Fri 13 Jan
Reading: Integrating primary care and public health – learning from the Brazilian way - London Journal of Primary Care
Primary health care: a review and critical appraisal of its 'revitalisation' [pdf] - chapter from Global Health Watch
Primary health care and global health - Dr Christopher Millett
Mon 16 Jan Introduction to week 3 [pdf] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti
Access to medicines and human rights + pdf version - Dr Nathan Ford
Tues 17 Jan PCD working paper: Linking school feeding with agriculture development [Word] - suggested reading: pages 3, 6, 7, 10, 23 and  25

PCD working paper: Developing rations for home grown school feeding [Word]
School meal ration considerations for home-grown school feeding - Rae Galloway
Thurs 19 Jan
Reading: Chapter 6: Environment and sustainability [pdf] (rotate to view) - from Rural livelihoods and diversity in developing countries by Frank Ellis
Development and sustainable livelihoods - Dr Judith Cherni
Fri 20 Jan
Burnett A and Peel M: What brings asylum seekers to the United Kingdom? [pdf] BMJ 2001; 322: 485-8
Burnett A and Peel M: Health needs of asylum seekers and refugees [pdf] BMJ 2001; 322: 544-7

Burnett A and Peel M: The health of survivors of torture and organised violence [pdf] BMJ 2001; 322: 606-9
Globalisation and migrants' health + cases [word] - Dr Angela Burnett
Revision and preparation for Part B exams [pdf] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti
Mon 23 Jan
Reading: Framework for assessing governance of the health system in developing countries [pdf] - Health Policy 90 (2009) 13–25
Sections recommended: only the first 3 sections up to the top of p16 (stop at ‘Existing frameworks for assessing governance’) then skip to the short Conclusion (section 8 – policy implications.

Group-specific recommended reading – as per see material provided for the practical.
Addressing global health governance challenges through a new mechanism: The Proposal for a Committee C of the World Health Assembly [pdf] - Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
The Global Health System: Actors, norms, and expectations in transition - PLoS Medicine, January 2010 | Volume 7 | Issue 1
Introduction to week 4 [pdf] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti
Global health governance [pdf] - Dr Sid Wong
Tues 24 Jan
Reading: Chapter 2: Broken Promises care in Africa: the need for careful action [pdf] - from Globalization and its discontents by Joseph E Stiglitz
Globalization and problems of equitable development [pdf] - Dr Judith Cherni
Wed 25 Jan
Reading: The ‘other diseases’ of the Millennium Development Goals: rhetoric and reality of free drug distribution to cure the poor’s parasites [Word] - This is a preprint of an article submitted for consideration in the Third World Quarterly © 2011 [copyright Taylor & Francis]; available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/current
Global health priorities – priorities of the wealthy? - Globalization and Health 2005
Hemrich G (2005): Matching food security analysis to context: the experience of the Somalia food security assessment unit [pdf] Disasters. 29 (Suppl 1): S67-91
Power and weakness [pdf] - Kagan R. (2002) Power and Weakness, Policy Review, 113
In search of the 'New Informal Legitimacy' of Medecins Sans Frontieres [pdf] - Public Health Ethics Advance Access published 30 December 2011
Key issues in global health and humanitarian policy - Bev Collin and Dr Sid Wong
Fri 27 Jan
Reading: Generation of political priority for global health initiatives: a framework and case study of maternal mortality [pdf] - The Lancet, vol 370, 13 October 2007
Generating political priority for maternal survival [pdf] - Dr Mariam Sbaiti
Mon 30 Jan

Reading: Checchi F, Gayer M, Grais RF, Mills EJ 2007. Public health in crisis-affected populations: a practical guide of r deicison-makers - HPN Network Paper 61. London: ODI. Chapters 3-5.
Armed conflict and health [pdf] - Dr Bayard Roberts
Tues 31 Jan

Manzi F, et al: Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria and anaemia control in Tanzanian infants; the development and implementation of a public health strategy Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2008), doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.08.014

Haines A, Sanders D, Lehmann U, Rowe AK, Lawn JE, Jan S, Walker DG, Bhutta Z (2007) Achieving child survival goals; potential contribution of communicity health workers - The Lancet, 23 June;369(9579):2121-31

Understanding the market for community health workers [pdf] - Dr Lesong Conteh
IPTi: from RCT to policy [pdf] - Dr Lesong Conteh
Providing a health service to vulnerable populations: the case of indigenous populations in Southern Venezuela by Alejandro Reig - No presentation will be available for this session as the results presented by the speaker are based on unpublished work. The main points from this session are contained in the essential reading:
Montenegro, Raul A, Stephens Carolyn: Indigenous health in Latin America and the Caribbean [pdf] - The Lancet 2006; 367: 1859-69
Wed 1 Feb
Reading: Fryatt R, Mills A, Nordstrom A (2010) Financing of health systems to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals in low-income countries [pdf] - The Lancet 375: 419-426.

Drummond A. Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes - Oxford University Press 2005 3rd ed. The whole book is a useful reference, and more particularly Chapter 2.
Health care financing: revenue collection [pdf] - Dr Lesong Conteh
Health care financing: pooling of funds [pdf] - Dr Lesong Conteh
Health care financing: purchasing services [pdf] - Dr Lesong Conteh
Thurs 2 Feb Introduction to economic evaluations [pdf] - Dr Lesong Conteh

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