Health

Suggested Readings:

Child Health

• World Council of Churches (WCC). (2005). Contact 179. Chapters 1, 3, 5, 6.
• Progress for Children, UNICEF. No. 1-current, 2004-current.
• The State of the World's Children, UNICEF (1996-current).
• Progress for Children: A Child Survival Report Card, Vol. 1, (2004), UNICEF.
• Health: A Key to Prosperity: Success Stories in Developing Countries, WHO, 2000.
• Gordon, B., Mackay, R., & Rehfuess, E. (2004). Inheriting the world: The atlas of children's health and the environment.
• Hargreaves, J., & Boler, T. (2006). Girl power: The impact of girls' education on HIV and sexual behavior. Action Aid International (Education and HIV Series 01).
• Plan International. (2009). Because I am a girl: The state of the world's girls 2009.
• United Nations General Assembly. (2009). Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict.
• UNICEF. (2004). Summary report of the study on the impact of the implementation on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• UNICEF. (2009). Progress for children: A report card on child protection.

Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases

• Stuckler, D., King, L., & Basu, S. (2008). International Monetary Fund programs and tuberculosis outcomes in post-Communist countries. PLoS Medicine, 5(7).
• Gender and HIV/AIDS, Gender and Development IN BRIEF, Issue #11.
• Commonwealth Secretariat. (2000). Gender mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Taking a multisectoral approach.
• WHO. (2009). Global health risks: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks.
• Heggenhougan, K., et al. (2003). The behaviorial and social aspects of malaria and its control: An introduction and annotated bibliography.
• Heymann, D. (2000). The urgency of a massive effort against infectious diseases.
• Raja, K. (2005). WHO: Chronic diseases could kill 35 million in 2005.
• WHO report on global surveillance of epidemic-prone infectious diseases, WHO, (2000). (Chapter 1 only).
• WHO. (2000). Communicable diseases 2000.
• WHO. (2000). Report on infectious diseases: Overcoming antimicrobial resistance.
• WHO. (2008). The global burden of disease: 2004 update.

Conflict and Violence

• Committee for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men. (2009, May 15). Sexual violence against women in armed conflict. (Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Doc. 11916.)
• Haas, J. (2009). Women and men in conflicts: Fair and equal? (Summary from the Eschborn Dialogue, Eschborn, Germany.) Published by the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ).
• ICRC. (2003). Women and war: Special report.
• Save the Children. (2005). Forgotten casualties of war: Girls in armed conflict.
• UNIFEM. (2007). Violence against women: Facts and figures.
• United Nations. (2009). Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. (64th session of the United Nations General Assembly.)
• WHO. (2009). Violence prevention: The evidence: overview.

Drug and Substance Abuse

• Drug abuse and addiction: Understanding the signs, symptoms, and effects, excellent article from Helpguide.org, a trust non-profit resource.
• Substance abuse symptoms checklist, National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of the San Fernando Valley, Inc.
• Lambert, E. (2002). Principles of HIV prevention in drug-using populations.
• Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, an open access journal.
• Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - STFX access only.
• Substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Special issue of African Journal of Drug & Alcohol Studies, 5(2), (2006).
• UNDCP. (1995, March). The social impact of drug abuse. Paper prepared for the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen.
• UNRISD. (1994). Illicit drugs: Social impacts and policy responses (Briefing Paper No. 2).

Environmental Health

• Gordon, B., MacKay, R. & Rehfuess, E. (2004). Inheriting the world: The atlas of children's health and the environment.
• Labonte, R. (2004). Fatal indifference: The G8, Africa, and global health. IDRC.
  • Chapter 8: Environment
• Lebel, J. (2003). In Focus: Health - An ecosystem approach.
       - Chapter 1 - The Issue
       - Chapter 2 - The Approaches
       - Chapter 3 - Lessons and Successes
  
• WHO. (2003). Climate change and human health: Risks and responses. See Chapter 1: Global climate change and health: An old story writ large, A. McMichael, pages 6-7.
• Simms, A., et al. (2004). Up in smoke? Threats from, and responses to, the impact of global warming on human development.
• People and Planet explores issues of population, poverty, health, consumption and the environment.
• Pruss-Ustun, A. et al. (2008). Safer water, better health: Costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health.
• UNICEF. (2008). Climate change and children: A human security challenge: policy review paper.
• WHO. (2006). Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease.
• WHO. (2003). Making a difference: Indicators to improve children's environmental health.
• WHO. (2000). Climate change and human health: Impact and adaptation.

Food Security

• FAO. (2005). The state of food insecurity in the world 2005.
• FAO. (2003). The state of food insecurity in the world 2003.
• Kickbusch, I., et al. (2010). The food system: A prism of present and future challenges for health promotion and sustainable development.
• Labonte, R. (2004). Fatal indifference: The G8, Africa, and global health. IDRC.
  • Chapter 5: Nutrition, food security and biotechnology
• Van de Poel, E. , et al. (2008). Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 86(4).
• Save the Children. (2003). Thin on the Ground: Questioning the evidence behind World Bank-funded community nutrition projects in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda.
• World Food Programme. (2007). World hunger series 2007: Hunger and health.
• WHO, (2000). Nutrition for Health and Development: A Global Agenda for Combating Malnutrition. Pg 1-23.
• Tansey, G., & Rajotte, T. (Eds.). (2008). The Future Control of Food: A guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectural property, biodiversity and food security.

Gender

• Danguilan, M. (2008). Keeping the faith: Overcoming religious fundamentalism. Arrows For Change, 14(1/2), 1-3.
• Greig, A. (2009). Troublesome masculinities: Masculinity in trouble. IDS Bulletin, 40(1), 69-76. (StFX access only)
• UNDP & AusAID. (2009). The gendered dimensions of disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change: Stories from the Pacific.
• Wendoh, S. & Wallace, T. (2006). Living gender in African organisations and communities: Stories from the Gambia, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.
• WHO. (2007). Engaging men and boys in changing gender-based inequity in health: Evidence from programme interventions.
• WHO. (2007). Fatherhood and health outcomes in Europe.
• Yinger, N., et al. (2002). A framework to identify gender indicators for reproductive health and nutrition programming.

Health and Development

• Bambra, C., Fox, D., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2005). Towards a politics of health. Health Promotion International, 20(2).
• Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79(9), (2001).
  • Dollar, D. Is globalisation good for your health?.
  • Cornia, G. Globalization and health: Results and options.
  • Woodward, D. Globalization and health: A framework for analysis and action.
  • Loewenson, R. Globalization and occupational health: A perspective from southern Africa.
  • Fidler, D. The globalization of public health: The first 100 years of international health diplomacy.
• CSDH (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. World Health Organization.
  • Executive Summary
• Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CDSH) hosted a conference in November, 2008 on Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health.
  • Conference videos, Day 1 (part 1)
  • Conference videos, Day 1 (part 2)
  • Conference videos, Day 2
• Globalization for health: Part II, HealthWrights.
• Gwatkin, D. (2002). Who would gain most from efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals for health? (World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Discussion Paper).
• Hancock, T. (2009). Act locally: Community-based population health promotion. A report for the Senate Subcommittee on Population Health.
• Health is global: Proposals for a UK government-wide strategy, a report from the UK's Chief Medical Adviser, Sir Liam Donaldson. This document encourages the development of a global health strategy, one that will benefit the UK population and the rest of the world.
• Labonte, R. (2003). Dying for trade: Why globalization can be bad for our health. (Social Justice Series). CSJ Foundation for Research and Education.
• Labonte, R. (2004). Fatal indifference: The G8, Africa, and global health. IDRC.
  • Chapter 1: Globalization, Health and Development: The Right Prescription?
  • Chapter 2: Macroeconomic Policy, Structural Adjustment and Debt Relief
  • Chapter 3: Health and Health Systems
• Labonte, R., & Schrecker, T. (2006). Globalization and social determinants of health: Analytic and strategic review paper.
• Labonte, R., & Sanger, M. (2006). Glossary of the World Trade Organisation and public health: Part 1. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60.
• Labonte, R., Schrecker, T., & Gupta, A.S. (2005). Health for some: Death, disease and disparity in a globalizing era. Toronto: CSJ Research and Education.
• Lavin, T. & Metcalfe, O. (2009). Economic arguments for addressing social determinants of health inequalities (DETERMINE Working Document #4). This report is a product of the project DETERMINE: An EU consortium for Action on the Socioeconomic Determinants of Health.
• McCoy, D. (2003). Global Equity Gauge Alliance: Reflections on early experiences. Published in Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 21(3), 272-287.
• Mikkonen, J. & Raphael, D. (2010). Social determinants of health: The Canadian facts.
  • Additional resources
• Millennium Development Goals Africa Steering Group. (2008). Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa.
• Oxfam. (2009). Blind optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries. (Briefing Paper 125).
• Ocean, C. (2005). Policies of exclusion, poverty & health. Podcasts available for download.
• Ravishankar, N., et al. (2009). Financing of global health: Tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. The Lancet, 373/9681, 2113-2124.
• Sachs, J. (2001). Macroeconomics and health: investing in health for economic development.
• United Nations. (2009). Millennium Development Goals Report 2009.
• UNDP. (2010). Human Development Report 2010. This report provides an assessment of human development since the 1970s, explores the concept of human development, and highlights implications for policy and development strategies and recommendations for a new development agenda.
• Wallerstein, N. (2006). What is the evidence on effectiveness of empowerment to improve health?. Health Evidence Network report. WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• Werner, D. (2001). Insuring the necessary resources for the human right to health: National and international measures. Address delivered to the Global Assembly on "Advancing the Human Right to Health", Iowa.
• WHO. (2005). Action on the social determinants of health: Learning from previous experiences.

Health Impact Assessment

• Health Impact Assessment, WHO's site contains tools, methods and resources.
• Health Impact Assessment, resources from the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• Mittelmark, M. (2000). Promoting social responsibility for health: Health impact assessment and healthy public policy at the community level.
• Samson-Barry, H., et al. (2000). A short guide to health impact assessment: Informing healthy decisions.
• Scott-Samuel, A., Birley, M., Ardern, K. (2001). The Merseyside guidelines for health impact assessment. (2^nd ed.)
• Antigonish Town and County Community Health Board (ATCCHB) and People Assessing Their Health (PATH) Network, 2002.
  
• PATHways II: The Next Steps: A Guide to Community Health Impact Assessment, 2002.
  

Health and Trade

• Blouin, C., Chopra, M., & van der Hoeven, R. (2009). Trade and social determinants of health. The Lancet, 373/9662, 502-507.
• Fidler, D., Drager, N. & Lee, K. (2009). Managing the pursuit of health and wealth: the key challenges. The Lancet, 373/9660, 325-331.
• Lee, K., Sridhar, D., & Patel, M. (2009). Bridging the divide: Global governance of trade and health. The Lancet, 373/9661, 416-422.
• Legge, D., Sanders, D., & McCoy, D. (2009). Trade and health: the need for a political economic analysis. The Lancet, 373/9663, 527-529.
• MacDonald, R. & Horton, R. (2009). Trade and health: time for the health sector to get involved. The Lancet, 373/9660, 273-274.
• Smith, R., Chanda, R., & Tangcharoensathien, V. (2009). Trade in health-related services. The Lancet, 373/9663, 593-601.
• Smith, R., Correa, C., & Oh, C. (2009). Trade, TRIPS, and pharmaceuticals. The Lancet, 373/9664, 684-691.
• Smith, R., Lee, K., & Drager, N. (2009). Trade and health: an agenda for action. The Lancet, 373/9665, 768-773.
• Songkhla, M. N. (2009). Health before profits? Learning from Thailand's experience. The Lancet, 373/9662, 441-442.
• Stiglitz, J. E. (2009). Trade agreements and health in developing countries. The Lancet, 373/9661, 363-365.

HIV/AIDS

See HIV/AIDS resource page.

Human Rights and Health

• Hunt, P. (2007). Neglected diseases: A human rights analysis. (Special Topics No. 6).
• Nygren-Krug, H. (2002). 25 questions and answers on health and human rights. WHO Health & Human Rights Publications Series Issue No. 1.
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) & World Health Organization (WHO). A human rights-based approach to health.

ICT and Health

• ICT and health, resource library from the International Information Support Centre.
• ICT and health: Investigating knowledge gaps is the result of a study by Healthlink Worldwide.

Indigenous Peoples and Health

• Bristow, F., et al. (2003). Utz' Wach'il: Health and well being among indigenous peoples. Health Unlimited and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Men's Roles in Health

• Greig, A., Kimmel, M., & Lang. J. (2000). Men, masculinities and development: Broadening our work towards gender equality. Gender in Development Monograph Series, No. 10.
• UNFPA. (2000). Men, Reproductive Rights and Gender Equality (Chapter 4), in UNFPA State of world population 2000.
• WHO. (2002). Programming for male involvement in reproductive health: Report of the meeting of WHO Regional Advisers in Reproductive Health.

Mental Health

• MacArthur, G. (2008). Challenges and priorities for global mental health research in low- and middle-income countries: Symposium report.
• Mental health, WHO resource page.
• WHO. (2001). The World health report 2001: Mental health: New understanding, new hope.

• Fawcett, S., Nagy, J. et al. (n.d.). Our evaluation model: Evaluating comprehensive community initiatives. Community Toolbox, University of Kansas, USA.

Primary Health Care

• Baird, M., & Shetty, S. (2003). Getting there: How to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. Finance & Development, 40(4).
• Zwi, A., Brugha, R., & Smith, E. (2001). Private health care in developing countries, British Medical Journal, 323/7311, 463-464.
• Contact 172: Health for All.
• Contact 174: Community-Based Health Insurance.
• Ferrando, J. E. (2002). We were sold (and bought) a health system that doesn't work. Envio, 21(253).
• Swift, R. (2001). Health Hazard. New Internationalist, 331.
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) & World Health Organization (WHO), (2003). Primary health care in the Americas: Lessons learned over 25 years and future challenges.
• Simms, C., Rowson, M., & Peattie, S. (2001). The bitterest pill of all: The collapse of Africa's health systems.
• Werner, D. (2001). Elusive promise. New Internationalist, 331.
• WHO. (2008). Community-directed interventions for major health problems in Africa: a multi-country study: final report.
• WHO. (2008). The world health report 2008: Primary health care now more than ever.

Reproductive Health

• Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), et al. (2004). Fulfilling reproductive rights for women affected by HIV: A tool for monitoring achievement of Millennium Development Goals.
• Publications from the Guttmacher Institute, a leader on sexual and reproductive health issues in the United States and worldwide.
• Report of the 2^nd International Conference on Reproductive Health Management (ICRHM): Emphasis on Family Planning
  Conference held in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, May 6-8, 2008.
• Save the Children. (2004). Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health.

Sexuality and Health

• Pereira, C. (2008). Changing narratives of sexuality - concept paper. Pathways Working Paper 4.

Statistics and Indicators

• World Health Organization. (2010). World health statistics 2010. WHO's annual compilation of data that includes a summary of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and also contains information on reported cases of infectious diseases.

Women and Health

• Domestic violence against women and girls, Innocenti Digest, No. 6, (2000).
• Gender and Ageing: Fact sheet. Program on Women, Health and Development, No. 31, (2001).
• Freedman, L.P., et al. (2005). Transforming health systems to improve the lives of women and children. The Lancet, 365/9463, 997-1000. StFX access only.
• Grown, C., Gupta, G. R., & Pande, R. (2005). Taking action to improve women's health through gender equality and women's empowerment. The Lancet, 365/9458, 542-543.
• Kholsa, P., & Pearl, R. (2003). Untapped connections: Gender, water and poverty: key issues, government commitments and actions for sustainable development.
• Nair, S., Kirbat, P., & Sexton, S. (2004). A decade after Cairo: Women's health in a free market economy. The Corner House Briefing 31.
• Osmani, S. & Sen. A. (2002). The hidden penalties of gender inequality: Fetal origins of ill-health. Economics & Human Biology, 1(1), 105-121. StFX access only.
• Pande, A. (2003). Nimble fingers, tired bodies: Improving the health of women workers in export processing zones. (Draft). Read Chapter 2, Pg 10-22.
• SAWNET: Health Issues for South Asian Women
• WHO. (2009). Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector: Tool to improve responsiveness to women's needs.
• WHO. (2009). Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda.

Videos

• Flight 208 - an satirical film concerning inequalities and filmed across the globe. (7 min.)
• Sentenced for a Lifetime - about women languishing in mental hospitals in India. (3 min.)
• Health for All? - The one question that forms the basis of our movement. (1 min.)
• Every Woman - Child Soldiers, documentary on child soldiers with emphasis on girl soldiers. (12:10 min.)

Health-Related Organizations and Sources

• CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. service for information on HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB).
• Contact Magazine, issues available: 1998-present.
• Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world.
• Global Health Course at International Health, offered by the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
• Globalization and Health, an open-access journal. Issues available: 2005-current.
• Health: an ecosystem approach, IDRC's in_focus website contains resources on the ecosytem approach to human health.
• Health & Development Networks (HDN), a non-profit organisation experienced in managing electronic discussion forums and communication support for conferences.
• The Health Manager's Toolkit
• Health, Nutrition & Population, World Bank site provides information for improving health, nutrition, and population outcomes of poor people.
• Healthlink Worldwide empowers people for better health.
• HealthWrights is committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups.
• Hesperian Foundation is a non-profit publisher of books and newsletters for community-based health care.
• Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network promotes women's health, human rights and citizenship.
• Medact speaks for people whose health, wellbeing and access to proper health care are compromised by war, poverty and environmental damage.
• Pan American Health Organization works to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas.
• People's Health Movement
• Politics of Health Knowledge Network explores the impact of political decisions on health.
• SARA: Support for Analysis and Research In Africa, publications on child survival, nutrition, reproductive health and population, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, and basic education.
• Science and Development Network is dedicated to providing reliable information about science and technology for the developing world.
• UNFPA. (2003). State of World Population 2003. Examines adolescents' health and rights.
• UNICEF, building a world where the rights of every child are realized.
• Wemos Foundation: Health for All strives to improve people's health in developing countries.
• World Health Organization, the authority for health in the United Nations system.
• WHO. (2002). WHO traditional medicine strategy 2002-2005.
• Youth InfoNet is a source for information on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention.