Required Readings
Wilkinson, R., & Pickett, K. (2010). The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.
· Chapter 15, “Equality and Sustainability” (pp. 217–234)
Brennan-Olsen, S. L., Cook, S., Leech, M. T., Bowe, S. J., Kowal, P., Naidoo, N., … Mohebbi, M. (2017). Prevalence of arthritis according to age, sex and socioeconomic status in six low- and middle-income countries: Analysis of data from the World Health Organization study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) Wave 1. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 18(1), 271. doi:10.1186/s12891-017-1624-z
Conlon, C. M., Serbanescu, F., Marum, L., Healey, J., LaBrecque, J., Hobson, R., … Weiss, W. (2019). Saving mothers, giving life: It takes a system to save a mother (republication). Global Health: Science and Practice, 7(1), 20–40. doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00092
De Groot, A., Van de Munt, L., Boateng, D., Savitri, A. I., Antwi, E., Bolten, N., … Browne, J. L. (2019). Equity in maternal health outcomes in a middle-income urban setting: A cohort study. Reproductive Health, 16(1), 84. doi:10.1186/s12978-019-0736-3
Jaquet, A., & Dabis, F. (2017). Smoking status and HIV in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet Global Health, 5(6), e557–e558. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30179-1
Koblinsky, M. (2017). Maternal death surveillance and response: A tall order for effectiveness in resource-poor settings. Global Health: Science and Practice, 5(3), 333–337. Retrieved from doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00308
Larson, L. M., & Yousafzai, A. K. (2017). A meta-analysis of nutrition interventions on mental development of children under-two in low- and middle-income countries. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 13(1), e12229. doi:10.1111/mcn.12229
Lerch, M. (2019). Regional variations in the rural-urban fertility gradient in the global South. PLOS ONE, 14(7), e0219624. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0219624
Meessen, B. (2018). The role of digital strategies in financing health care for universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries. Global Health: Science and Practice, 6(Supplement 1), S29–S40. doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00271
Murala, J. S. K., Karl, T. R., & Pezzella, A. T. (2019). Pediatric cardiac surgery in low-and middle-income countries: Present status and need for a paradigm shift. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 7. doi:10.3389/fped.2019.00214
Psaki, S. R., Chuang, E. K., Melnikas, A. J., Wilson, D. B., & Mensch, B. S. (2019). Causal effects of education on sexual and reproductive health in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. SSM - Population Health, 8, 100386. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100386
Ross, J. (2015). Improved Reproductive health equity between the poor and the rich: An analysis of trends in 46 low- and middle-income countries. Global Health: Science and Practice, 3(3), 419–445. doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00124
Gapminder. (n.d.). Retrieved July 20, 2019, from https://www.gapminder.org/
Harmonization for Health in Africa Steering Group. (n.d.). Investing in health for Africa. Retrieved July 16, 2019, from WHO Regional Office for Africa website: https://afro.who.int/publications/investing-health-africa
Nambiar, D., Rajbhandary, R., Koller, T. S., & Hosseinpoor, A. R. (2019). Building capacity for health equity analysis in the WHO South-East Asia Region. WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, 8(1), 4–9. doi: 10.4103/2224-3151.255342
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