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Global Health Issues                     

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OECD Health Data 2007 CD-ROM.

OECD Publishing, July 23, 2007.

Globalization and Social Determinants of Health: Promoting health equity in global governance (part 3 of 3).

Labonte R. Schrecker T. Globalization and Health. 2007:3(7). [free full text]

Nurses' experiences of recruitment and migration from developing countries: a phenomenological approach.

Troy P. Wyness L. McAuliffe E. Human Resources for Health; 2007 Jun 7;5(15).

Vaccines against dengue: a review of current candidate vaccines at advanced development stages.
Hombach J. Pan Am J Public Health. 2007;21(4). [free full text]

The challenge of global health.
Garrett, L.  Foreign Affairs. 2007;Jan/Feb. [free full text]

Worldmapper: The Human Anatomy of a Small Planet.
Dorling D. PLoS MEd Jan 2007;4(1): e1.   [free full text]

Improving Global Health -- Margaret Chan at the WHO.
Shuchman, M.  NEJM. 2007;356(7):653-6.  [free full text]

How to Promote Global Health
This web features roundtable participants Paul Farmer, Jeffrey Sachs, Alex de Waal, Roger Bate, Kathryn Boateng, and Laurie Garrett discussing Garrett's essay “The Challenge of Global Health” and debating how best to help the world's poor and sick, 2007. [free full text]

Health in an unequal world.
Marmot, M. The Lancet. 2006;368(9552), 2081-94.

Cardiovascular diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Barcelo, A. The Lancet. 2006;368(9536),625-6.

A human rights approach to the WHO model list of essential medicines.
 Seuba, X.  Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2006;84(5):337-424.

How do intellectual property law and international trade agreements affect access to antiretroviral therapy?

Westerhaus M. Castro A. PLoS Med. 2006: 3(8). [free full text]

The Developing World in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Lown, B. Banerjee, A. Globalization and Health; 2006, 2:3. [free full text]

South Africa: ARV programme less than the sum of its (monetary) parts.
Nduru, M. Inter Press Service News Agency. 2006;Mar 14.  [free full text]

Health & poverty.
American Medical Student Association. Global Pulse: AMSA’s International Health Journal. 2006;2(1), Spring.  [free full text]

Health-South Africa: A burden that will only become heavier. 
Palitza, K.  Inter Press Service News Agency.  2006;May 28.  [free full text]

Poor medicine for poor people? Assessing the impact of neoliberal reform on health care equity in a post-socialist context.
Janes CR, Chuluundorj O, Hilliard CE, Rak K, Janchiv K. Global Public Health. 2006;1(1):5-30.

Health systems and the implementation of disease programmes: case studies from South Africa.
Schneider H, Gilson L, Odgen J, Lush L, Walt G. Global Public Health. 2006;1(1):49-64.

The health impacts of globalization: A conceptual framework.
Huynen, M., Martens, P. & Hilderink, H. Globalization and Health, 2005.  [free full text]

Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health, 1980-2001.

Mackinco JA, Starfield B. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2002:1(1).[free full text]

Social medicine in Latin America:  Productivity and dangers facing the major national groups.
Waitzkin, H., Iriart, C., Estrada, A. & Lamadrid, S. The Lancet. 2001;358(9278),315-23.

Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition and Population.

Gwatkin D, Rustein S, Johnson K. Pande R, Wagstaff A. 2000. Washington DC: The World Bank. [free full text]

Whither equity in health?  The state of the poor in Latin America.
Farmer, P. DRCLAS News. 2000; Fall,3-8. [free full text]

A collection of articles on social medicine in the 21st century
in PLoS Medicine [free full text]

Books & Reports

Global Right to Health: Dream or Possibility?
MacDonald T. Radcliffe Medical Publishing, Oxford. 2007.

Renewing Primary Health Care in the Americas.
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization PAHO/WHO. Washington, DC: 2007. [free full text]

Challenging Inequity Through Health Systems.

Gilson L, Doherty J. Loewenson R. Francis V. Knowledge Network on Health Systems, WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. June 2007. [free full text]

Does the IMF Constrain Health Spending in Poor Countries? Evidence and an Agenda for Action.
Goldsbrough, D. Center for Global Development. June 2007. [free full text]

Generating Political Priority for Public Health Causes in Developing Countries: Implications from a Study on Maternal Mortality.

Shiffman. J. Center for Global Development; 2007 June.

State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 
Health Systems Trust. 2007. [free full text]

New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad.
Clemens MA. Pettersson G. Center for Global Development. Working Paper Number 95. February 2007. [free full text]

State of the world's children 2007: Women and children – The double dividend of gender equality.
UNICEF.  2007.  [free full text]

AIDS epidemic update. 
UNAIDS/WHO. 2006; December.  [free full text]

Designing health & population programs to reach the poor.
Ashford, L.S., Gwatkin, D.R. & Yazbeck, A. Washington, D.C.: Population Reference Bureau, 2006. [free full text]

Educate Girls, Fight AIDS. 
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS. UNAIDS; 2006, No.1. [free full text]

From Ideals to Tools: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Latin America.

Yamin , AE . Plaza y Valdes; 2006.

Health situation in the Americas: Basic Indicators 2006. 
Pan American Health Organization. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Health Organization, 2006. [free full text]

Human development report 2006: Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis.
United Nations Development Programme, 2006. [free full text]

South African Health Review. 
Ijumba, P. & Padarath, A. (Eds.)  Health Systems Trust, 2006.  [free full text]

State of the world population, 2006: A passage to hope, women and international migration. 
UNFPA.  2006.  [free full text]

State of the world´s children 2006: Excluded and invisible.
UNICEF. 2006. [free full text] 

The Surgeon General's Call to Action on Global Health: Draft Version.

Department of Health & Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General. May 19, 2006. [free full text]

World health statistics.
World Health Organization.  2006.  [free full text]

Action on the Social Determinants of Health: Learning from Previous Experiences, A Background Paper Prepared for the Commission on Social Determinants of Health.  
 World Health Organization.  2005. [free full text]

Indigenous People, Poverty, and Human Development in Latin America 1994-2004.
Hall G. Patrinos HA, eds. Palgrave Macmillan: Hampshire, England, 2005. [free full text]

Pathologies of power: Health, human rights, and the new war on the poor.
Farmer, P.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Reaching the poor with health, nutrition, and population services : What works, what doesn't, and why.
Gwatkin, D.R., Wagstaff, A. & Yazbeck, A. Washington, D.C.:  The World Bank, 2005.  [free full text]

The Global Shortage of Registered Nurses: An Overview of Issues & Actions. 
The  Global Nursing Review Initiative. 2004. [free full text]

Human development. health and education.
Khan, S. Ed. UNESCO, 2004.

Human resources for health: Overcoming the crisis.
Joint Learning Initiative, 2004.
[free full text]

Low Birthweight: Country, Regional & Global Estimates.  
UNICEF. 2004. [free full text]

Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Public Health.
Levine R and the What Works Working Group with Kinder M. Washington, DC,: Center for Global Development, 2004. 

Sickness and wealth: The corporate assault on global health.
Fort, M., Mercer, M.A. & Gish, O., Eds. Cambridge, Mass: South End Press, 2004.

Global public health: A new era.
Beaglehole, R., Ed. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Mountains beyond mountains:  The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world.
Kidder, T. New York: Random House, 2003.

Public health in Latin America. 
Noronha, J., Jouval Jr., H. & Machado, C. in R. Beaglehole (Ed.), Global public health: A new era (121-134).  Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

The health of nations:  Why inequality is harmful to your health.
Kawachi, I. & Kenney, B. New York: The New Press, 2002.

More than a market: Making sense of health care systems. 
W.K. Kellogg Foundation.  Battle Creek, M.I.: W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 2002.

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health.
Garrett, L. New York: Hyperion, 2001.

Dying for growth:  Global inequality and the health of the poor. 
Kim, J. Y. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2000.

Inequality reexamined.
Sen, A.K.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996.

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance.
Garrett, L. New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

Alma Ata Declaration.
The International Conference on Primary Health Care (PHC) in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, in 1978, brought together 134 countries and 67 international organizations. The conference defined and granted international recognition to the concept of Primary Health care as a strategy to reach the goal of Health for All in 2000. [free full text]

Links

Africa Fighting Malaria

This not-for-profit health advocacy group based in South Africa and in the United States conducts research on the political economy of diseases and disease control in developing countries by monitoring and reporting on aid programs of the World Bank, USAID, UNICEF and WHO.  Focus is primarily on malaria but HIV/AIDS and the problems associated with poverty and a lack of health systems are also covered.

allAfrica.com Health News

This site aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources.

American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Global Health Action Committee

Center for Global Development

This independent, not-for-profit think tank works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.

The Commonwealth Fund's Links to Publications on Underserved Populations

GapMinder World Chart 2006

This graphic, updated annually, plots health (measured in under 5 mortality) and wealth (measured in GNP) of all countries in the world.

The Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria

Global Health & Global Health Archive

Search two million bibliographic records about world health from 1910 to today, encompassing scientific literature on a global scale from both the developing and developed world.

Global Health Reporting

This Kaiser Family Foundation web site provides the latest data, statistics, overviews and country-specific information on HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB. Available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hindi and simplifed Chinese.

Harvard Medical School, Center for Health and the Global Environment

This center is dedicated to helping people understand that our health depends on the health of the environment, and that we must do everything we can to protect it.

www.healthnet.org

Site covers health issues with emphasis on public health in the developing world; extensive links to international health discussion boards. 

Joint Learning Initiative on Human Resources for Health and Development (JLI)

Millions Saved

From eradication of polio in Latin America, to elimination of measles in southern Africa, to HIV prevention in Thailand, the 17 cases documented in this study show that large-scale success in health are indeed possible.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)  Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas

Partners in Health.  Mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care.

Rethinking International Health (RIH) – Open access, state-of-the-art resource explores complexities of global health crisis using 13 interviews with global health leaders and structuring study courses around them; each interview has its own sylllabus, course readings and additional resources.

Roll Back Malaria Partnership

Rx for Survival – These broadcasts and educational website examine what makes us sick, what keeps us healthy, and what it would take to give good health the upper hand, 2005/2006.

UN Millennium Goals

World Bank Online Atlas of the MDGs – Interactive maps present key MDG indicators and progress for more than 200 economies; resizable country maps allow for easy comparisons; user-friendly indicator data. Available in English, Spanish,  and French.

World Federation of Public Health Associations – This international, nongovernmental organization brings health workers throughout the world together for professional exchange, collaboration, and action.

World Health Organization’s Communicable Disease Global Atlas – This site brings together in a single electronic platform analysis and comparison data for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels.