Human and Microbial Ecology and Infectious Disease Control
Required Literature
Levinson Warren “Review of medical microbiology and immunology – 10th edition. aLange medical book. ISBN 978-0-07-149620-9.
- Part I, chapters 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
- Part II, chapters 14 to 21
- Part III, chapters 28, 32, 33, 36
- Part IV, chapter 45
- Part VII, chapters 57 to 61
Recommended Literature
Origins and evolution of antibiotic resistance. Davies J, Davies D. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2010;74(3):417-33. Review.
WHO fact sheet on antimicrobial resistance http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/
WHO | Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance 2014 http://www.who.int/drugresistance/documents/surveillancereport/en/
WHO | Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. http://www.who.int/antimicrobial-resistance/publications/global-action-plan/en/
Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. Liu L, Johnson HL, Cousens S, Perin J, Scott S, Lawn JE, Rudan I, Campbell H, Cibulskis R, Li M, Mathers C, Black RE; Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of WHO and UNICEF. Lancet. 2012;379(9832):2151-61.
Emerging infectious diseases: threats to human health and global stability. Morens DM, Fauci AS. PLoS Pathog. 2013;9(7):e1003467.
Eliminating the Neglected Tropical Diseases: Translational Science and New Technologies. Hotez PJ, Pecoul B, Rijal S, Boehme C, Aksoy S, Malecela M, Tapia-Conyer R, Reeder JC. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 10(3):e0003895.
WHO | Global tuberculosis report 2016 http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/250441/1/9789241565394-eng.pdf?ua=1
Treatment outcomes in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Gunther G et al. New Engl J Med 2016; 375:11.
Estimating the future burden of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa: a mathematical modelling study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017; 17:707-715.
Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Control of Infectious Diseases. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4829a1.htm
Emerging arboviruses: why today? Gould E, Pettersson J, Higgs S, Charrel R, de Lamballerie X. One Health 2017; 4:1-13.
Emerging bacterial pathogens: the past and beyond. Vouga M, Greub G. Clin Microbiol Infect 2016; 22:12-21.
Ethier C and Jenssen PD. “The human waist resource in developing countries” NHL/Noragric 1997.
Ecological sanitation and reuse of wastewater: ecosan: a thinkpeace on ecological sanitation. PD Jenssen et al. http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/medisin/inthealth/INTHE4000/h07/undervisningsmateriale/Water%20and%20Health%20article.pdf
NCDs and nutrition
Global status report on non-communicable diseases 2014. http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/ncd-status-report-2014/en/
Global report on diabetes. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/204871/1/9789241565257_eng.pdf
Lim S et al. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analyses for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012; 380: 2224-60.
Bhopal RS. A four-stage model explaining the higher risk of Type 2 diabetes mellitus in South Asians compared with European populations. Diabet Med. 2013 Jan;30(1):35-42. doi: 10.1111/dme.12016.
Popkin BM, Adair LS, Ng SW. Now and then: the Global Nutrition Transition The Pandemic of Obesity in Developing Countries. Nutrition Reviews 2012; 70(1): 3-21
Barry M Popkin. Relationship between shifts in food system dynamics and acceleration of the global nutrition transition Nutrition Reviews 2017; 75(2): 73-82
Boyd A Swinburn, et al. The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments. Lancet 2011; 378: 804-14
Marmot M. Health in an unequal world. Lancet 2006; 368: 2081-94
Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2012. Summary and Principles, page 19-64. http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:704251/FULLTEXT01.pdf
The Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases Collaboration (BMI Mediated Effects). Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1.8 million participants. Lancet 2014, 383:970-983. http://www.ncdrisc.org/publications.html
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults NCD risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-risC). Nature 569, 260–264 (2019) | Download Citation
Batal M, Steinhouse L, Delisle H. The nutrition transition and the double burden of malnutrition. Med Sante Trop. 2018 Nov 1;28(4):345-350. doi: 10.1684/mst.2018.0831.
Bouga M, Lean MEJ, Combet E. Contemporary challenges to iodine status and nutrition: the role of foods, dietary recommendations, fortification and supplementation. Proc Nutr Soc. 2018 Aug;77(3):302-313. doi: 10.1017/S0029665118000137
Additional reading
Rimante Ronto1, Jason HY Wu and Gitanjali M Singh. The global nutrition transition: trends, disease burdens and policy interventions. Public Health Nutrition: 21(12), 2267–2270 doi:10.1017/S1368980018000423
Barry M. Popkin. Relationship between shifts in food system dynamics and acceleration of the global nutrition transition. Nutr Rev. 2017 Feb; 75(2): 73–82.
Reproductive- and child health
Rights and RH
Sofia Gruskin & T.K. Sundari Ravindran on behalf of the Rights-Oriented Research and Education (RORE) Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health (2014) Realising the ICPD 20 years later: Shifting the paradigms for research and education, Global Public Health, 9:6, 647-652, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.923014. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Rights-Oriented%20Research%20and%20Education%20(RORE)%20Network%20for%20Sexual%20and%20Reproductive%20Health%22%5BCorporate%20Author%5D.
Circumcision/FGM
Berg RC, Denison E. A Tradition in Transition: Factors Perpetuating and Hindering the Continuance of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Summarized in a Systematic Review. Health Care for Women International. 2013;34(10):837-895. doi:10.1080/07399332.2012.721417. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783896/
Abortion
Storeng, K. T., & Ouattara, F. (2014). The politics of unsafe abortion in Burkina Faso: The interface of local norms and global public health practice. Global Public Health, 9(8), 946–959. http://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.937828.
Ouédraogo, R., & Sundby, J. (2014). Social Determinants and Access to Induced Abortion in Burkina Faso: From Two Case Studies. Obstetrics and Gynecology International, 2014, 402456. http://doi.org/10.1155/2014/402456.
Maternal health
Afr J Reprod Health. 2014 Mar;18(1):16-26. Components of maternal healthcare delivery system contributing to maternal deaths in Malawi: a descriptive cross-sectional study. Thorsen VC, Meguid T, Sundby J, Malata A.
Sørbye, I. K., Vangen, S., Oneko, O., Sundby, J., & Bergsjø, P. (2011). Caesarean section among referred and self-referred birthing women: a cohort study from a tertiary hospital, northeastern Tanzania. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 11, 55. http://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-11-55.
Cole-Ceesay, R., Cherian, M., Sonko, A., Shivute, N., Cham, M., Davis, M., … Southall, D. (2010). Strengthening the emergency healthcare system for mothers and children in The Gambia. Reproductive Health, 7, 21. http://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-7-21.
Afr J Reprod Health. 2014 Mar;18(1):35-43. Barriers to skilled birth attendance: a survey among mothers in rural Gambia. Lerberg PM, Sundby J, Jammeh A, Fretheim A.
Screening
Br J Surg. 2013 Jan;100(1):55-65. doi: 10.1002/bjs.8995. Principles, effectiveness and caveats in screening for cancer. Bretthauer M1, Kalager M.
Young people
Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2006 Jun;20(3):355-68. Epub 2006 Feb 9. Young people's sexual and reproductive health rights. Sundby J.