| PowerPoint presentations, unless otherwise indicated: |
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Introduction to module [pdf] - Dr Marian Sbaiti |
| Notes on seminar [Word] - Dr Marian Sbaiti |
Thurs 3 Jan |
Empirical data for assessing public health needs - Professor Simon Gregson |
Epidemiological methods for determining health in populations - Dr Laura Robertson |
| The research process: a fieldwork perspective - Professor Simon Gregson |
| Reference reading: Impact and process evaluation of integrated community and clinic-based HIV-1 control |
| Useful websites: |
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Week 2
Mon 7 Jan |
Critical appraisal of systematic reviews - Dr Teresa Norat |
| Essential reading: The PRISMA statement |
| Introduction to health systems [pdf] - Dr Julie Balen |
| Essential reading: Strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes |
Seminar: Causal pathways to health in orphans - Dr Laura Robertson |
Essential reading: Household headship and child nutrition: a case study in western Kenya [pdf] - Onyango A, Tucker K & Eisemon T, Social Science and Medicine 1994; 39(12):1633-9 |
| Tues 8 Jan |
PJH session 2: Trends in health systems financing and impact - Professor Rifat Atun |
| Essential reading: Innovative financing for health: what is truly innovative? |
| Introduction to social epidemiology - Dr Laura Robertson |
| Causal pathways to sexual health in orphans: a worked example of the use of theoretical frameworks in social epidemiology - Dr Laura Robertson |
| Case study [Word] |
| Theoretical framework [pdf] + answers [pdf] |
Recommended reading: Epidemiology and the web of causation: has anyone seen the spider? |
| Wed 9 Jan |
Assessing drug harm [pdf] - Professor David Nutt |
| Essential reading: Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis |
| This session was intended as an illustration of the policy theory we covered in the introduction to the module. The contents of this session are not core material for the course. You heard one particular narrative from a policy maker and academic working in a contentious area of policy. This particularly relates to themes of the use of evidence in policy-making.
The Rolles and Measham paper (2011) is an example of the critique to the exercise of ranking drug harms based on expert opinion.
Can you think of better approaches you would have taken to look into the question of drug harms? This case relates particularly to Chapter 9 of the Making health Policy textbook (2nd ed) on “Research, Evaluation & Policy”. Can you think of how Professor Nutt’s case can help you understand the difference between the “2 worlds”, researchers and policy-makers? You can email any further questions for Professor Nutt to Mariam who will pass them on. |
| Fri 11 Jan |
Health systems: policy, politics and practice - Dr Julie Balen |
| Essential reading: The terrain of health policy analysis in low and middle income countries... |
| Tackling health inequalities: turning policy into practice? |
| Measuring the health of populations and global inequalities [pdf] - Professor Majid Ezzati |
Essential reading: Population health metrics: crucial inputs to the development of evidence... |
| Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis... |
Reading: GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics |
From new estimates to better data |
Years lived with disability... |
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury... |
The reversal of fortunes: trends in county mortality... |
Week 3
Mon 14 Jan |
Technologies for global health [pdf] - Professor Stephen Matlin |
Essential reading: Technologies for global health |
| Research and development to meet health needs in developing countries |
Inter-BSc afternoon at Brighton University |
Reference reading: WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework [pdf] |
| Strengthening the role of genomics in global health |
| How can developing countries harness biotechnology to improve health? |
How to define a population: cultural politics and population genetics in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China |
| Haggling over viruses: the downside risks of securitizing infectious disease |
| The WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework: a milestone in global governance for health |
| Tues 15 Jan |
Innovation in health care [pdf] - Michael MacDonnell |
Essential reading: Disseminating innovations in health care |
| School feeding/agriculture programmes - Aulo Gelli |
| Essential reading: PCD publications |
Interesting further reading: Food sovereignty: power, gender, and the right to food |
Big food, food systems, and global health |
| Wed 16 Jan |
Health technology assessment of medical devices [pdf] - Dr Josip Car |
| Reading: Technologies for global health [pdf] - The Lancet, vol 380, 4 August 2012 |
| Thurs 17 Jan |
Financing health systems - Professor Peter Smith |
| Fri 18 Jan |
Migrant health in the UK: understanding barriers and access to health care [pdf] - Kristine Harris (Doctors of the World) |
| GP patient registration [pdf] - Kristine Harris |
Essential reading: Access to primary health care for migrants is a right worth defending |
International Migration, Health & Human Rights (WHO) - read pages 7-10 and 19-29 |
Week 4
Mon 21 Jan |
Global health governance with notes - Sid Wong |
Essential reading: The global health System: actors, norms, and expectations in transition |
Addressing global health governance challenges through a new mechanism... |
| Tues 22 Jan |
Globalization and problems of equitable development [pdf] - Dr Judith Cherni |
| Essential reading: Globalization and its discontents, Chapter 2: Broken Promises, Stiglitz, JE (2002), Penguin, London |
| Fri 25 Jan |
Is access to medicines a human right? [pdf] - Nathan Ford |
Essential reading: Are drug companies living up to their human rights responsibilities? |
AIDs: patent rights versus patient's rights |
Week 5
Mon 28 Jan |
Armed conflict and health [pdf] - Dr Bayard Roberts (LSHTM) |
Essential reading: Health-care needs of people affected by conflict: future trends... |
| Tues 29 Jan |
Primary care in the world - Dr Christopher Millett |
| The role of primary care in improving population health - Dr Christopher Millett |
Essential reading: Integrating primary care and public health - learning from the Brazilian way |
Optional reading: The commissioning reforms in the English National Health Service... |
The World Health Report 2008 - primary health care (now more than ever) |
| Wed 30 Jan |
Global Health and humanitarian policy - Bev Collin |
Essential reading: Matching food security analysis to context: the experience of the
Somalia Food Security Assessment Unit [pdf] |
| Towards a common definition of global health [pdf] - www.thelancet.com Vol 373, 6 June 2009 |
| Recommended 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 |
| Global health priorities ¨priorities of the wealthy? - Globalization and Health 2005 |
| 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 |