Textbooks
Skolnik, R. (2015). Global health 101. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Content
- Introduction
Bloom, B.R. (2005). Public Health in Transition, Scientific American, Sep 2005, 92-99
UN (2015), The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015, New York
Lim, S. S., Allen, K., Bhutta, Z. A., Dandona, L., Forouzanfar, M. H., Fullman, N., ... & Kinfu, Y. (2016). Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1813-1850.
- Health and Development 1
Acemoglu, D., & Johnson, S. (2007). Disease and development: the effect of life expectancy on economic growth. (No. w12269), National Bureau of Economic Research.
Bloom, D., Canning, D., & Sevilla, J. (2003). The demographic dividend: A new perspective on the economic consequences of population change. Rand Corporation.
Bloom, D. E., & Canning, D. (2000). The health and wealth of nations. Science(Washington), 287(5456), 1207-1209.
Preston, S. H. (2007). The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. International journal of epidemiology, 36(3), 484-490.
Bloom, David E., Canning, D., Fink, G. (2014). Disease and Development Revisited. J.P.E. 122(6):1355–66.
- Health and Development 2
Pritchett, L., & Summers, L. H. (1996). Wealthier is healthier. Journal of Human resources, 841-868.
Singh, A. (2014). Why are economic growth and reductions in child undernutrition so weakly correlated—and what can public policy do?. The Lancet Global Health, 2(4), e185-e186.
Rhum, C.J. (2000). Are Recessions Good for Your Health? The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 115, No. 2 pp. 617-650
Vollmer, S., Harttgen, K., Subramanyam, M. A., Finlay, J., Klasen, S., & Subramanian, S. V. (2014). Association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition: evidence from 121 Demographic and Health Surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries. The lancet global health, 2(4), e225-e234.
- Global Burden of Disease
Forouzanfar, M. H., Afshin, A., Alexander, L. T., Anderson, H. R., Bhutta, Z. A., Biryukov, S., ... & Cohen, A. J. (2016). Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1659-1724
Wang, H., Naghavi, M., Allen, C., Barber, R. M., Bhutta, Z. A., Carter, A., ... & Coggeshall, M. (2016). Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The lancet, 388(10053), 1459-1544.
Kassebaum, N. J., Arora, M., Barber, R. M., Bhutta, Z. A., Brown, J., Carter, A., ... & Cornaby, L. (2016). Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1603-1658.
Salomon et al., (2012). Common Values in Assessing Health Outcomes from Disease and Injury: Disability Weights Measurement Study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet; 380:2129-43
- Social Determinants of Health
Marmot, M. (2008). Closing the Gap in a Generation. WHO report
Marmot, M. G., Allen, J., Goldblatt, P., Boyce, T., McNeish, D., Grady, M., & Geddes, I. (2010). Fair society, healthy lives: Strategic review of health inequalities in England post-2010.
Sen, A. (2006). Why Health Equity? Health Economics, 11:659-666
Smith, G. D., & Ebrahim, S. (2003). ‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?. International journal of epidemiology, 32(1), 1-22.
- Health Behavior in Developing Countries
Dupas, P. (2011). Health behavior in developing countries. Annu. Rev. Econ., 3(1), 425-449.
Dupas, P. (2011). Do teenagers respond to HIV risk information? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (January 2011): 1–34.
Thornton, R. L. (2008). The demand for, and impact of, learning HIV status. The American economic review, 98(5), 1829.
Dupas, P., & Robinson, J. (2013). Why don't the poor save more? Evidence from health savings experiments. American Economic Review, 103(4), 1138-71.
- Health finance
Lu, C., Schneider, M. T., Gubbins, P., Leach-Kemon, K., Jamison, D., & Murray, C. J. (2010). Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis. The Lancet, 375(9723), 1375-1387.
Cohen, J., & Dupas, P. (2007). Free distribution or cost-sharing? Evidence from a randomized malaria prevention experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. CXXV February 2010 Issue 1.
Dupas, P., Cohen, J., & Schaner, S. (2014). Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial. American Economic Review, 105(2): 609–645.
- Health systems
Frenk, J. (2010). The global health system: strengthening national health systems as the next step for global progress. PLoS Med, 7(1), e1000089.
Banerjee, A. V., Duflo, E., Glennerster, R., & Kothari, D. (2010). Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives. Bmj, 340, c2220.
King, G., Gakidou, E., Imai, K., Lakin, J., Moore, R. T., Nall, C., ... & Ávila, M. H. (2009). Public policy for the poor? A randomised assessment of the Mexican universal health insurance programme. The lancet, 373(9673), 1447-1454.
Frenk, J., González-Pier, E., Gómez-Dantés, O., Lezana, M. A., & Knaul, F. M. (2006). Comprehensive reform to improve health system performance in Mexico. The Lancet, 368(9546), 1524-1534.
World Health Organization. (2000). The world health report 2000: health systems: improving performance. World Health Organization.
- Early Childhood Origins of Development
Walker, S. P., Wachs, T. D., Grantham-McGregor, S., Black, M. M., Nelson, C. A., Huffman, S. L., ... & Gardner, J. M. M. (2011). Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development. The Lancet, 378(9799), 1325-1338.
Grantham-McGregor, S., Cheung, Y. B., Cueto, S., Glewwe, P., Richter, L., Strupp, B., & International Child Development Steering Group. (2007). Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. The lancet, 369(9555), 60-70.
Gertler, P., Heckman, J., Pinto, R., Zanolini, A., Vermeersch, C., Walker, S., ... & Grantham-McGregor, S. (2014). Labor market returns to an early childhood stimulation intervention in Jamaica. Science, 344(6187), 998-1001.
Attanasio, O., Cattan, S., Fitzsimons, E., Meghir, C., & Rubio-Codina, M. (2015). Estimating the production function for human capital: Results from a randomized control trial in Colombia (No. w20965). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Maternal Health
Ronsmans, C., Graham, W. J., & Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering group. (2006). Maternal mortality: who, when, where, and why. The lancet, 368(9542), 1189-1200.
Almond, D., & Mazumder, B. (2011). Health capital and the prenatal environment: the effect of Ramadan observance during pregnancy. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 56-85.
Almond, D. (2006). Is the 1918 Influenza pandemic over? Long‐term effects of in utero Influenza exposure in the post‐1940 US population. Journal of political Economy, 114(4), 672-712.
- Social Networks and Health
Christakis, Nicholas A. and James H. Fowler. 2007. The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years. The New England Journal of Medicine 357, no. 4: 370-379
Cohen-Cole, E., & Fletcher, J. M. (2008). Is obesity contagious? Social networks vs. environmental factors in the obesity epidemic. Journal of health economics, 27(5), 1382-1387.
Fowler, J. H., & Christakis, N. A. (2008). Estimating peer effects on health in social networks: a response to Cohen-Cole and Fletcher; Trogdon, Nonnemaker, Pais. Journal of health economics, 27(5), 1400.
Ludwig, J., Sanbonmatsu, L., Gennetian, L., Adam, E., Duncan, G. J., Katz, L. F., ... & McDade, T. W. (2011). Neighborhoods, obesity, and diabetes—a randomized social experiment. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(16), 1509-1519.
Smith, K. P., & Christakis, N. A. (2008). Social networks and health. Annu. Rev. Sociol, 34, 405-429.
Trogdon, J. G., Nonnemaker, J., & Pais, J. (2008). Peer effects in adolescent overweight. Journal of health economics, 27(5), 1388-1399.
- Mental health
Prince, M., Patel, V., Saxena, S., Maj, M., Maselko, J., Phillips, M. R., & Rahman, A. (2007). No health without mental health. The lancet, 370(9590), 859-877.
- Povery and mental health nexus
- Lund et al 2011: Poverty and mental disorders: breaking the cycle in low-income and middle-income countries
