2004 Public Health Symposium
'Global Health: The Challenge of Inequality'

Overview Articles for the Symposium on the Subject of Global Health

Global Health Overview Reading 1

Global Health Overview Reading 2

Suggested Readings for Eileen Crimmins, PhD:
'World Population Aging, Inequality, and Health'

Hayward , MD, Zhang, Z (2001). Demography of Aging: A Century of Change, 1950-2050. in R.H. Binstock and L.K. George (eds.) Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences Fifth Edition. New York : Academic Press.

Serow, WJ (2001). Economic and Social Implications of Demographic Patterns. in R.H. Binstock and L.K. George (eds.) Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences Fifth Edition. New York : Academic Press.

Kinsella, K and Velkoff, VA (2001). Life Expectancy and Changing Mortality. U.S. Census Bureau, Series P95/01-1. An Aging World: 2001. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington , DC . pp. 23-35
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Kinsella, K and Velkoff, VA (2001). Health and Disability. U.S. Census Bureau, Series P95/01-1. An Aging World: 2001. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington , DC . pp. 37-47

Suggested Readings for Dr. James Hughes:
'Microbial Threats to Health: Root Causes and Global Challenges'

Brief Summary of Microbial Threats to Health:  Emergence, Detection, and Response.  Smolinski MS, Hamburg MA , Lederberg J, eds.  Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies. Washington DC , The National Academies Press, 2003.

Bloom, BR. Lessons from SARS.  Science 2003;300:701.

Guerrant RI, Blackwood BI.  Threats to global health and survival: the growing crises of tropical infectious diseases-an "unfinished" agenda. Clin Infect Dis 1999;28:966-986.

Hughes JM.  The SARS response-building and assessing an evidence-based approach to future global microbial threats.  JAMA 2003;290:3251-3253.

Lee JW.  Global health improvement and WHO:  shaping the future.  The Lancet 2003;362:2083-2088.

Suggested Readings for Dr. Tom Robins
'Challenges of Globalization for Occupational and Environmental Health'

Myers JE. Globalisation and occupational health [3 part series]. Occupational Health Southern Africa 2004: March/April:15-16, May/June:6-11; July/August:4-8.

Holkeri H. Editorial.
Goldstein G, Helmer R, Fingerhut M. Mobilizing to protect worker’s health: the WHO global strategy on occupational health and safety.
Lopez-Valcarcel A. New challenges and opportunities for occupational safety and health in a globalized world.
Loewenson R. Effects of globalization on working women.
[All in] African Newsletter on Occupational Safety and Health 2001; 11:55-67.

McMichael AJ. The urban environment and health in a world of increasing globalization: issues for developing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000; 78:1117-1126.

Suggested Readings for Dr. Gita Sen
'Poverty, Economic Growth, and Gender Equity: Impacts on Health'

Millennium Project (2004). From Promise to Action: Recommendations for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Interim Report of Task Force 3 on Primary Education and Gender Equality (Supported by the UN Development Group).

Gita Sen, Asha George, Piroska Ostlin. Engendering Health Equity: A Review of Research and Policy. MIT Press. 1-33.