| PowerPoint presentations, unless otherwise indicated: |
Week 1
Mon 12 Nov |
Global non-communicable diseases + pdf version - Professor Paolo Vineis |
| Essential reading: Oesophageal cancer in Golestan Province... |
| Global Mental Health - a new displine reaches maturity - [pdf] - Martin Prince |
Global Mental Health - scaling up mental health services - [pdf] - Martin Prince |
| Tues 13 Nov |
Access to health Care: challenges of delivering services to rural and remote populations in Guyana [pdf] - Terrence Simmons |
| Reading: |
- European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association, EURIPA. A collaborative analysis of public health and health service issues in rural areas.
(Online) 1999
- Ryan-Nicholls KD, Racher FE. Investigating the health of rural communities:
toward a framework development. Rural and Remote Health4: 244. (Online)
2004.
- Rygh EM, Hjortdahl P. Continuous and integrated health care services in rural
areas. A literature study. Rural and Remote Health7: 766. (Online) 2007
- Rural Policy Research Institute. Defining rural: Definitions of rural areas in the US. Online 2001
- Halton J. Improving the health of rural Australians. Rural and Remote Health5:
487. Online 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 [pdf]. Dartmouth College Press 2009
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| Thurs 15 Nov |
Migration and the mental health of young people [pdf] - Dr Matthew Hodes |
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| Refugee health and care of survivors of torture [pdf] - Robin Ewart-Biggs |
Essential reading: Medical best practices for the treatment of torture survivors [pdf] - Richard Mollica - TORTURE Volume 21, Number 1, 2011 |
| Refugees and psychological trauma: psychosocial perspectives |
| Confounding and effect modification [pdf] - Dr Marta Blangiardo |
| Paper discussion [Word] - Dr Marta Blangiardo |
| Practical exercises [Word] + solutions [Word - Dr Marta Blangiardo |
| Discussion on Diabetes and social class - Dr Marta Blangiardo |
| Essential reading: Lower educational level is a predictor of incident type 2 diabetes... |
Week 2
Mon 19 Nov |
Introduction to the week - Professor Paolo Vineis - Sick individuals and sick populations [pdf] |
The conundrum of obesity and diabetes [pdf] - Professor Paolo Vineis |
| Practical: Obesity and climate change [Word] |
Essential reading: Obesity-related quality-adjusted life years lost in the US... |
| Further reading: Principlism, medical individualism, and health promotion in resource-poor countries: can autonomy-based bioethics promote social justice and population health? |
| Tues 20 Nov |
Child malnutrition [pdf] - Dr Tom Lissauer |
| Practical: Data interpretation practice (past ICA) - Dr Marc Chadeau-Hyam |
| Reading: Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use... [pdf] |
Disability, ability, representation: bodies and sculpture [pdf] - Kelley Swain |
| Wed 21 Nov |
Burden of disease: hypertension [pdf] - Professor Majid Ezzati |
Essential reading: Intersalt revisited: further analyses of 24 hour sodium excretion and blood pressure within and across populations |
| Hypertension - time to move on |
| National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980... |
Suggested reading: Blood pressure in four remote populations in the INTERSALT study |
The promise of prevention: The effects of four preventable risk factors on national life expectancy and life expectancy disparities by race and county in the US |
A strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 80% |
Chronic disease prevention: health effects and financial costs of strategies to reduce salt intake and control tobacco use |
| Thurs 22 Nov |
Global food security, climate change and development [pdf] - Helena Wright |
Essential reading: Feeding a Thirsty World - read pages 5-12 (Introduction) |
| The salt industry - Dr Linda Oude Griepe, Dr Queenie Chan |
| Essential reading: Reducing population salt intake worldwide... |
| Recommended reading: Salt intakes around the world: implications for public health |
| The variability of reported salt levels in fast foods across six countries... |
| Design of a cohort study, and key points + practical answers [Word] - Rachel Kelly |
| Fri 23 Nov |
Nutritional epidemiology as a public health science [pdf] - Dr Anne-Claire Vergnaud |
Essential reading: Major dietary patterns in relation to general obesity... |
Urbanisation, nutrition transition and cardiometabolic risk: the Benin study |
| Practical: Statistical analysis of a cohort study answers [Word] - Dr Anne-Claire Vergnaud |
Essential reading: Diet and risk of diverticular disease in Oxford cohort... |
Week 3
Mon 26 Nov |
Gene-environment interaction: the role of epigenetics - Dr Marc Gunter |
| Essential reading: Environmental epigenomics and disease susceptibility |
| Global inequalities: Is epigenetics the strongest link? - Rachel Kelly |
Essential reading: Epigenetics: the next big thing |
| Tues 27 Nov |
Student-led seminar: The long-term consequences of famine in the Netherlands in WWII - Rachel Kelly |
| Essential reading: Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans |
Medical humanities: cardio and epigenetics - Kelley Swain |
| Wed 28 Nov |
Understanding epigenetics and diabetes through migration [pdf] - Dr John Chambers |
| Thurs 29 Nov |
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and biomarkers for CVD - Professor Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin |
Essential reading: Estimated 10-year cardiovascular risk in a British population... |
Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases |
| Time trends in cardiovascular disease mortality in Russia and Germany from 1980 to 2007... |
| A case–control study on cardiovascular disease [pdf] - Dr Queenie Chan |
| Essential reading: Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study) [pdf] - The Lancet, September 2004 |
| Fri 30 Nov |
Global maternal health and mortality [pdf] - Professor Lesley Regan |
Essential reading: Safe motherhood initiative: 20 years and counting |
| Recommended reading: Maternal survival |
Week 4
Mon 3 Dec |
The era of chemical hazards [pdf] - Dr Toby Athersuch |
Essential reading: Chemical regulators have overreached |
REACH further |
| Reach deadline passes, registrations fall short of predictions |
Discussion and reading of Lancet paper on Diesel Industry - Professor Paolo Vineis |
Essential reading: Industry group “threatens” journals to delay publications [pdf] |
| Disaster risk management: when, how, why? [pdf] - Ashton Barnett-Vanes |
Reading: Risk reduction and emergency preparedness [pdf] |
| Wed 5 Dec |
Multiple pathways from the built environment to health [pdf] - Dr Audrey de Nazelle |
| Essential reading: Improving health through policies that promote active travel... |
| Recommended reading: Urban sprawl and public health |
| Thurs 6 Dec |
Tobacco as a major global health issue [pdf] - Dr Benjamin Hawkins (LSHTM) |
Essential reading: Corporate power and social policy |
Further reading: A descriptive model of the cigarette epidemic in developed countries |
Trade policy, health, and corporate influence: British American tobacco and China's accession to the World Trade Organization |
Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) |
| Asbestos as a world-wide occupational and environmental carcinogenic exposure [pdf] - Karin van Veldhoven |
Essential reading: Multicentric study on malignant pleural mesothelioma and non-occupational exposure to asbestos |
| Fri 7 Dec |
The global burden of Alzheimer's disease and other late-onset dementias [pdf] - Professor Lefkos Middleton |
| Essential reading: Alzheimer's disease |
| Suggested reading: Projections of Alzheimer's disease in the United States and the public health impact of delaying disease onset |
| Global prevalence of dementia: a Delphi consensus study |
| An 18-year follow-up of overweight and risk of Alzheimer disease |
| Epidemiology of Alzheimer disease |
| Physical activity, diet, and risk of Alzheimer disease |
| Worldwide variation in the doubling time of Alzheimer's disease incidence rates |
Week 5
Mon 10 Dec |
Asthma in the world - Professor Neil Pearce |
Essential reading: The global epidemiology of asthma in children |
| Tues 11 Dec |
Trade and health: Corporate actors and global health governance [pdf] - Dr Benjamin Hawkins |
Essential reading: Selling addictions: Similarities in approaches between big tobacco and big booze [pdf] |
Water quality, quantity and climate change [pdf] - Pauline Scheelbeek |
| Student-led seminar on climate change [Word] + answers - Pauline Scheelbeek |
Water salinity in Bangladesh [pdf] - Aneire Khan |
| Essential reading: Water sanitation health |
| Impacts of climate change on surface water quality in relation to drinking water production |
| Thurs 13 Dec |
Climate change and health: vulnerabiliy, adaptation and mitigation - Professor Sir Andy Haines |
Recommended reading: Climate change and human health: impacts, vulnerability, and mitigation |
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions... |
| Climate change, mitigation strategies and their impact on health [pdf] - Dr Simon Buckle (Grantham Institute) |
Essential reading: Climate Change 2007: synthesis report |
| Further reading: Atlas of health and climate |