Global Health: an introductory textbook
Ann Lindstrand et al. 2006
(available at the UiO Library)
Intro week:
Towards a common definition of global health
Jeffrey Koplan et al.
Globalisation and health inequalities. Can human rights paradigm create space for civil society action?
Leslie London & Helen Schneider
Global action on social determinants of health
Ronald Labonte
Editorials: Global action on social determinants of health
Michael Marmot
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
Paul Farmer
Democratising Development. The Politics of Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa
Edited by Peris Jones & Kristian Stokke
Advancing the Right to Health Trough Global Organizations: The Potential Role of a Framework Convention on Global Health
Eric Friedman et al
Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010. A systematic analysis.
Diana Haring et al
Changes in the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
Wendy O’Meara et al
Global epidemiology of Tuberculosis
Philippe Glaziou et al
Stopping tuberculosis in the 21st century. Goals and strategies
Ikushu Onozaki & Mario Raviglione
Multidrug resistant to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. What is next?
Pratima Dixit & Amita Jain
Healthcare, Welfare and Law. Health legislation as a mirror of the Norwegian welfare state
Olav Moelven og Julia Ferkis
Week 2:
Induced abortion. Incidence and trends worldwide 1995 to 2008
Gilda Sedgh et al
Management of infertility in low resource countries
S Sharma et al
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008. A systematic analysis of the progress forward MDG5
MC Hogan et al
Young people’s sexual and reproductive health rights
Johanne Sundby
Maternal, neonatal and child health interventions and services: moving from knowledge of what works to systems that deliver
D McCoy et al
Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970-2010. A systematic analysis of progress towards MDG4
Julie Knoll Rajaratnma et al
Inequality in early childhood. Risk and protective factors for early child development
Susan Walker et al
Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries
PL Engle et al
Strengthening public health surveillance and response using the health systems strengthening agenda in the developing countries
Peter Nsubuga et al
Innovation for Health in Developing Countries
Kristin Braa et al
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in public health education
Pascale Allotey
Week 3
Antibacterial Resistance
JY Ang et al
Clinical Relevance of the ESKAPE Pathogens
JN Pendleton et al
Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance
Tackling Drug Resistance Globally. The review on antimicrobial resistance
Jim O’Neill
The CTX-M Conundrum: Dissemination of Plasmids and Escherichia coli Clones
Umaer Naseer and Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Breastfeeding and Health Outcomes for the Mother-Infant Dyad
CM Dieterich et al
Knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding breastfeeding of infants younger than 6 months in Mozambique. A qualitative study
Maaike Arts et al
Vitamin D supplementation reduces insulin resistance in South Asian women living in New Zealand who are insulin resistant and vitamin D deficient – a randomized, placebo-controlled trial
PR von Hurst et al
Issue attention on global health. The case of newborn survival
Jeremy Shiffman
Stillbirths: what difference can we make and at what cost?
ZA Bhutta et al
Stillbirths. How can health systems deliver for mothers and babies?
Robert Pattinson et al
Improving neonatal health in South East Asia
H Nair et al
Reducing neonatal mortality in resource poor settings. What works is now clearer but implementation is a challenge
KE Dickson and Mickey Chopra
Week 4
Out of the shadows? The inclusion of men and boys in conceptualisations of wartime sexual violence
Helen Touquet and Ellen Gorris
Systemic violence against Syrian refugee women and the myth of effective intrapersonal interventions
Rola Yasmine and Catherine Moughalian
Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis
Robert Beaglehole et al
Evaluation of community based interventions for non-communicable diseases. Experiences from India and Indonesia
A Krishnan et al
Cohort studies around world. Methodologies, research questions and integration to address the merging global epidemic of chronic diseases
H Nair et al
A socio-biological explanation for social disparities in non-communicable chronic diseases. The product of history?
CM Schooling and GM Leung
Developmental origins of non-communicable disease: Implications for research and public health
Robert Barouki et al
Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Affecting Factors among Individuals Aged 30 and over in Balcova District of Izmir
Ahmet Soysal et al
Programming of chronic disease by impaired fetal nutrition
Helene Delisle et al
Evidence of fetal programming of obesity with a focus on putative mechanisms
Sarah Wild and Christopher Byrne
Familial (shared environmental and genetic) factors and the foetal origins of cardiovasculadiseases and type 2 diabetes: a review of the literature
N. Bergvall and S Cnattingius
The Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study: paving the way for new diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes mellitus
Donald Coustan et al
Gestational diabetes mellitus among women born in South East Asia: A review of the evidence
Mary Carolan
Gestational diabetes and pregnancy outcomes – a systematic review of the WHO and the International Association of Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) diagnostic criteria
Eliana Wendland et al
Neonatal anthropometry: the thin-fat Indian Baby. The Pune Maternal Nutrition Study
CS Yajnik et all
Cohort Profile: The HUNT study, Norway
S. Krokstad et al
Offspring Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk in Parents – A population-based HUNT 2 Study
Kirsti Myklestad et al
Research on health transition in Africa. Time for action
Dermot Maher and James Sekajugo
Maternal and child undernutrition: an urgent opportunity
Richard Horton
A nutrition paradox underweight and obesity in developing countries
Benjamin Caballero
Prevalence and trends of stunting among pre-school children, 1990-2020
Mercedes de Onis et al
Global prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children
Mercedes de Onis et al
Global cancer prevention. An important pathway to global health and development
Robert Beaglehole et al
Week 5
Mapping, monitoring and surveillance of neglected tropical diseases. towards a policy framework
M. C. Baker et al
The global burden of neglected tropical diseases
A Fenwick
Global Health: Neglected diseases and access to medicines
Nisha Garg
Child and adolescent mental health worldwide. Evidence for action
Christian Kieling et al
Alcohol use disorders
J.P Conner et al
Comorbidity: Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses
National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA
Prevalence and correlates of major depression among Nepalese patients in treatment for alcohol-use disorders
SP Neupane & JG Bramnes
The Social Epidemiology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
K Poundstone et al
Stigma in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: A review of the literature and recommendations for the way forward
Anish Mahajan et al
Structural approaches to HIV prevention
Geeta Gupta et al
Universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment. Promise and problems
Harold Jaffe
Ethics, human rights and HIV vaccine trials in low-income settings
Leslie London et al
Not at all so hard-to-reach: same-sex attracted men in Dar es Salaam
Kåre Moen et al
Situating Condoms in Sexual Lives: Experiences of Same-sex-Attracted men in Tanzania
Kåre Moen et al
A review of co-morbidity between infectious and chronic disease in Sub Saharan Africa: TB and Diabetes Mellitus, HIV and Metabolic Syndrome, and the impact of globalization
Fiona Young et al
Week 6
Sexual and reproductive rights and the human rights agenda: controversial and contested
Wanda Nowicka
Sexual rights but not the right to health? Lesbian and bisexual women ins South Africa’s National Plans on HIV and STIs
Felicity Daly et al
Human rights violations of people with mental and psychosocial disabilities. An unsolved global crisis
Natalie Drew et al
Human rights in health systems frameworks. What is there, what is missing and why does it matter?
Sofia Gruskin et al
Building the global movement for health equity. From Santiago to Rio and beyond
Michael Marmot et al