Health

Child Health

• Dimmock, S., et al. (2011). Together with children - for children: A guide for non-governmental organizations accompanying children in CRC reporting. Published by NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (1.80 Mb pdf)
• 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). (693k pdf)
• Plan International. (2009). Because I am a girl: The state of the world's girls 2009.
• Progress for Children, UNICEF. No. 1-8, 2004-2009.
  • No. 9, 2010
  • No. 10, 2012
• The State of the World's Children, UNICEF (1996-current).
• UNICEF. (2004). Summary report of the study on the impact of the implementation on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (742k pdf)
• UNICEF. (2012). The state of the world's children 2012: Children in an urban world.
• World Council of Churches (WCC). (2005). Contact 179. Chapters 1, 3, 5, 6. (2.92 Mb pdf)

Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases

• Gender and HIV/AIDS, Gender and Development IN BRIEF, Issue #11.
• Hennenhougan, K., et al. (2003). The behaviorial and social aspects of malaria and its control: An introduction and annotated bibliography.
• Schneider, M., et al. (2011). Elimination of neglected diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mapping of selected diseases. PloS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(2).
• Stuckler, D., King, L., & Basu, S. (2008). International Monetary Fund programs and tuberculosis outcomes in post-Communist countries. PLoS Medicine, 5(7).
• WHO. (2008). The global burden of disease: 2004 update. (4.85 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2009). Global health risks: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks.
• WHO. (2012). Global report for research on infectious diseases of poverty.

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.) (268K pdf)
• Haas, J. (2009). Women and men in conflicts: Fair and equal? (Summary of the Eschborn Dialogue, Germany.) Published by the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). (1.45 Mb pdf)
• Save the Children. (2005). Forgotten casualties of war: Girls in armed conflict. (775K pdf)
• UNIFEM. (2007). Violence against women: Facts and figures. (86K pdf)
• 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.) (94k pdf)
• WHO. (2009). Violence prevention: The evidence: overview. (1.34Mb pdf)

Disabilities

• World report on disability, published in 2011 by the World Health Organization and the World Bank.

Drug and Substance Abuse

• Drug abuse and addiction: Understanding the signs, symptoms, and effects, excellent article from Helpguide.org, a trust non-profit resource.
• Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - STFX access only.
• Lambert, E. (2002). Principles of HIV prevention in drug-using populations. 
• Substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Special issue of African Journal of Drug & Alcohol Studies, 5(2), (2006). (739K pdf)
• Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, an open access journal.

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
• People and Planet explores issues of population, poverty, health, consumption and the environment.
• Simms, A., et al. (2004). Up in Smoke? Threats from, and responses to, the impact of global warming on human development. (770K pdf)
• UNICEF. (2008). Climate change and children: A human security challenge: policy review paper. (543K pdf)
• 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. (1.51 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2003). Making a Difference: Indicators to Improve Children's Environmental Health. (628K pdf)
• WHO. (2006). Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease.

Food Security / Nutrition

• Bailey, R. (2011). Growing a better future: Food justice in a resource-constrained world. Published by Oxfam.
• Bunting, M. (2011, January 21). How can we feed the world and still save the planet? [Web log].
• The state of food insecurity in the world, published by FAO.  Issues available: 1999 - current.
• Food security and gender, an Eldis resource guide.
• Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) is a community of practitioners who exchange knowledge on food security and nutrition through online discussions.
• Hansen-Kuhn, K. (2011). Making U.S. trade policy serve global food security goals. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). (196K pdf)
• IFPRI. (2010). 2010 Global hunger index: The challenge of hunger: focus on the crisis of child undernutrition. (3.42 Mb pdf)
• Kickbusch, I., et al. (2010). The food system: A prism of present and future challenges for health promotion and sustainable development. (1.92 Mb pdf)
• Labonte, R. (2004). Fatal indifference: The G8, Africa, and global health. IDRC.
  • Chapter 5: Nutrition, food security and biotechnology
• Mukherjee, A. (2010). Food insecurities faced by women and girl children. (CAPSA Occasional Paper 2). (237K pdf)
• Van de Poel, E. , et al. (2008). Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 86(4). (766K pdf)
• Right to Food and Nutrition Watch. (2010). The right to food and nutrition watch: Land grabbing and nutrition: challenges for global governance.
• Save the Children. (2003). Thin on the Ground: Questioning the evidence behind World Bank-funded community nutrition projects in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda. (569K pdf)
• 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.
• United Nations. (2010). Climate change: Food and nutrition security implications. SCN News, no. 38. (5.42 Mb pdf)
• United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition. (2010). Progress in nutrition: 6^th report on the world nutrition situation. (2.07 Mb pdf)
• World Food Programme. (2007). World hunger series 2007: Hunger and health. (3.53 Mb pdf)

Gender

• Danguilan, M. (2008). Keeping the faith: Overcoming religious fundamentalism. Arrows For Change, 14(1/2), 1-3. (4.31 Mb pdf)
• Greig, A. (2009). Troublesome masculinities: Masculinity in trouble. IDS Bulletin, 40(1), 69-76. (92k pdf) (StFX access only).
• Hausmann, R., Tyson, L, & Zahidi, S. (2010). The global gender gap report 2010. Published by the World Economic Forum.
• UNDP & AusAID. (2009). The gendered dimensions of disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change: Stories from the Pacific. (973k pdf)
• World Bank. (2012). World development report 2012: Gender equality and development.
• WHO. (2007). Engaging men and boys in changing gender-based inequity in health: Evidence from programme interventions. (1.2 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2007). Fatherhood and health outcomes in Europe. (645k pdf)
• Yinger, N., et al. (2002). A framework to identify gender indicators for reproductive health and nutrition programming. (508k pdf)

Globalization and Health

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79(9), (2001).
  • Dollar, D. Is globalisation good for your health?. (194K pdf)
  • Cornia, G. Globalization and health: Results and options. (100K pdf)
  • Fidler, D. The globalization of public health: The first 100 years of international health diplomacy. (92K pdf)
  • Loewenson, R. Globalization and occupational health: A perspective from southern Africa. (76K pdf)
  • Woodward, D. Globalization and health: A framework for analysis and action. (204K pdf)
• 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. (1.34 Mb pdf)
• Labonte, R. (2003). Dying for trade: Why globalization can be bad for our health. (Social Justice Series). CSJ Foundation for Research and Education. (551K pdf)
• 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. & Gagnon, M. (2010). Framing health and foreign policy: Lessons for global health diplomacy. Globalization and Health, 6(14).
• Labonte, R., Schrecker, T., & Gupta, A.S. (2005). Health for some: Death, disease and disparity in a globalizing era. Toronto: CSJ Research and Education. (714K pdf) 
• Ravishankar, N., et al. (2009). Financing of global health: Tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. The Lancet, 373/9681, 2113-2124.

Health and Development

• Bambra, C., Fox, D., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2005). Towards a politics of health. Health Promotion International, 20(2).
• Clark, R. (2011). World health inequality: Convergence, divergence, and development. Social Science & Medicine, 72(4), 617-624. (StFX access only.)
• Drexhage, J. & Murphy, D. (2010). Sustainable development: From Brundtland to Rio 2010. Paper prepared for High Level Panel on Global Sustainability. (140K pdf)
• 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). (380K pdf)
• Hancock, T. (2009). Act locally: Community-based population health promotion. A report for the Senate Subcommittee on Population Health. (665K pdf)
• 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.
• Labonte, R., & Sanger, M. (2006). Glossary of the World Trade Organisation and public health: Part 1. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60.
• McCoy, D. (2003). Global Equity Gauge Alliance: Reflections on early experiences.  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 21(3), 272-287.
• Millennium Development Goals Africa Steering Group. (2008). Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. (2.33 Mb pdf)
• Molina, G. & Purser, M. (2010). Human development trends since 1970: A social convergence story. UNDP Human Development Reports Research Paper 2010/02. (923K pdf)
• Oxfam. (2009). Blind optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries. Oxfam Briefing Paper 125. (371K pdf)
• Ocean, C. (2005). Policies of exclusion, poverty & health. Podcasts available for download.
• United Nations. (2011). Millennium Development Goals Report 2011. (4.04 Mb pdf)
• UNDP. (2011). Human Development Report 2011.
• Wallerstein, N. (2006). What is the evidence on effectiveness of empowerment to improve health?. Health Evidence Network report. WHO Regional Office for Europe. (359k pdf)

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.
• Antigonish Town and County Community Health Board (ATCCHB) and People Assessing Their Health (PATH) Network, 2002. (195K pdf)
• PATHways II: The Next Steps: A Guide to Community Health Impact Assessment, 2002. (282K pdf)
  

Health and Trade

• Berne Declaration, CCIC, &amp. Misereor. (2010). Human rights impact assessment for trade and investment agreements. Report of the Expert Seminar, June 23-24, Geneva, Switzerland. (392k pdf)

Articles in this section are STFX access only.

• 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

• Health GAP (Global Access Project) is an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists who campaign against the denial of treatment, funding of AIDS treatment programs, and the spread of HIV.
• Health and Human Rights: An International Journal. This open access journal is published within the Harvard School of Public Health.
• Nygren-Krug, H. (2002). 25 questions and answers on health and human rights. WHO Health & Human Rights Publications Series Issue No. 1. (760k pdf)
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) & World Health Organization (WHO). A human rights-based approach to health. (288K pdf)
• World Health Organization's Health and Human Rights Publication Series examines the relationship between human rights and specific health topics.

ICT and Health

• ICT and health, resource library from the International Information Support Centre.

Men's Roles in Health

• Greene, M., et al. (2006). Involving men in reproductive health: Contributions to development. Background paper prepared for the UN Millennium Project.
• Promoting gender equity publications and resources from EngenderHealth.
• Promoting gender equality: Engaging men and boys, resources from UNFPA.
• WHO. (2002). Programming for male involvement in reproductive health: Report of the meeting of WHO Regional Advisers in Reproductive Health.

Mental Health

• Funk, M., et al. (2010). Mental health and development: Targeting people with mental health conditions as a vulnerable group. (1.55 Mb pdf)
• MacArthur, G. (2008). Challenges and priorities for global mental health research in low- and middle-income countries: Symposium report. (416K pdf)
• Mental health, WHO resource page.
• State of Victoria, Department of Health. (2010). Using policy to promote mental health and wellbeing: An introduction for policy makers. (631K pdf)
• WHO. (2001). The World health report 2001: Mental health: New understanding, new hope.
• WHO. (2011). Mental health atlas 2011. (6.79 Mb pdf)

Planning and Evaluation

• 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). (327K pdf)
• Balabanova, D., McKee, M. & Mills, A. (2011). 'Good health at low cost' 25 years on: What makes a successful health system?. London: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Download by chapter. (5.65 Mb pdf)
• Contact 172: Health for All. (1.37 Mb pdf)
• Contact 174: Community-Based Health Insurance. (1.46 Mb pdf)
• 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.
• PAHO & WHO. (2003). Primary health care in the Americas: Lessons learned over 25 years and future challenges. (14K pdf)
• Simms, C., Rowson, M., & Peattie, S. (2001). The bitterest pill of all: The collapse of Africa's health systems. (1.56 Mb pdf)
• Werner, D. (2001). Elusive promise. New Internationalist, 331.
• WHO. (2010). The world health report - Health systems financing: the path to universal coverage.
• WHO. (2008). Community-directed interventions for major health problems in Africa: a multi-country study: final report. (4.65 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2008). The world health report 2008: Primary health care now more than ever.
• Zwi, A., Brugha, R., & Smith, E. (2001). Private health care in developing countries, British Medical Journal, 323/7311, 463-464. (StFX access only).

Reproductive Health

• de Bruyn, M. (2006). Fulfilling reproductive rights for women affected by HIV/AIDS: A tool for monitoring progress toward three Millennium Development Goals. (288K pdf)
• 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 (670K pdf)
  Conference held in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, May 6-8, 2008. (666K pdf)

Sexuality and Health

• Pereira, C. (2008). Changing narratives of sexuality - concept paper. (Pathways Working Paper 4). (163K pdf)

Social Determinants of Health

• ACTION:SDH is an electronic discussion platform which provides space to share experiences aimed at improving health equity through addressing the social determinants of health. It was created by the World Health Organization.
• 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. (7.29 Mb pdf)
  • Executive Summary (4.35 Mb pdf)
• 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
• Labonte, R., & Schrecker, T. (2006). Globalization and social determinants of health: Analytic and strategic review paper. (566K pdf)
• 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. (1.0 Mb pdf)
• Lee, J. H. & Sadana, R., et al. (Eds.). (2011). Improving equity in health by addressing social determinants. Published by World Health Organization. (1.50 Mb pdf)
• Mikkonen, J. & Raphael, D. (2010). Social determinants of health: The Canadian facts. (4.12 Mb pdf)
  • Additional resources
• Simpson, R. & Davies, T. (2011). Without walls: Towards health and well-being in the twenty-first century. Socialist Health Association.
• Social determinants of health, Health Exchange: Responding to Emergencies, 7, (2009).
• WHO. (2005). Action on the social determinants of health: Learning from previous experiences. (530K pdf)
• WHO. (2011, October). Closing the gap: Policy into practice on social determinants of health. Discussion paper presented at the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (1.92 Mb pdf)

Statistics and Indicators

• World health statistics, WHO's annual reports present the most recent health statistics. Issues available for download: 2005-current.

Water and Health

• Bartram, J. & Cairncross, S. (2010). Hygiene, sanitation and water: Forgotten foundations of health. PLoS Medicine, 7(11).
• Hunter, P., MacDonald, A. & Carter, R. (2010). Water supply and health. PLoS Medicine, 7(11).
• Pruss-Ustun, A., et al. (2008). Safer water, better health: Costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health. (2.63 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2012). UN-water global annual assessment of sanitation and drinking water (GLAAS) 2012 report: The challenge of extending and sustaining services. (8.93 Mb pdf)

Women and Health

• Domestic violence against women and girls, Innocenti Digest, No. 6, (2000). (296K pdf)
• Freedman, L.P., et al. (2005). Transforming health systems to improve the lives of women and children. The Lancet, 365/9463, 997-1000.
• Gender and Ageing fact sheet published by the Program on Women, Health and Development, No. 31, (2001). (70K pdf)
• 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. (53K pdf) 
• Kholsa, P., & Pearl, R. (2003). Untapped connections: Gender, water and poverty: key issues, government commitments and actions for sustainable development. (1.60 Mb pdf)
• Nair, S., Kirbat, P., & Sexton, S. (2004). A decade after Cairo: Women's health in a free market economy. The Corner House Briefing 31. (198K pdf)
• Osmani, S. & Sen. A. (2002). The hidden penalties of gender inequality: Fetal origins of ill-health. Economics & Human Biology, 1(1), 105-121.
  
• Save the Children. (2011). Champions for children: State of the world's mothers 2011. (1.77 Mb pdf)
• 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.

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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.)
• Gender and the MDGs, UNIFEM video series highlights MDGs from a gender perspective.

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 Watch mobilizes civil society around an alternative World Health Report.
• 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 Exchange, an online quarterly publication and forum for sharing experiences and lessons from the field. Published by UK-based agencies, Merlin and RedR.
• The Health Manager's Toolkit
• Health, Nutrition & Population, World Bank site provides information for improving health, nutrition, and population outcomes of poor people.
• 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.
• International Health & Development Network (IHDN), is dedicated to helping villages in developing countries by empowering them with medical and public health information.
• Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN) 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, 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 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.