Methods and Analysis of Global Health Trends and Differentials

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Assess approaches to measuring the determinants of health (including risks and behaviours) and their impacts on health status
• Critically evaluate strengths and weaknesses of data sources commonly used to measure health including the data collection process.
• Examine a range of summary measures and indicators for population health and mortality including appraising their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply frameworks and techniques to measure health care processes and outcomes with a focus on inequalities.
• Discuss approaches for monitoring and evaluating health interventions.

• Definition and domains of population health
• Data sources for measuring health and mortality
• Summary measures for population health and mortality
• Understanding and measuring risks factors in health
• Measuring and interpreting health inequalities including in the context of the social determinants of health
• Measuring health behaviours with a focus on sexual and reproductive health
• Questionnaire design and implementation
• Monitoring health interventions using results-chains
• Monitoring and evaluation of health system interventions

Teaching and learning methods

This module will be taught using a combination of lectures, seminars, and PC workshops as well as independent study.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Further useful literature can be found by consulting.

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century.

Journal Articles

Ratzan SC, Filerman GL, LeSar JW. (2000). Attaining global health: Challenges and opportunities. Population Bulletin, 55(1), pp. pp.52.

Lopez, Alan D., et al. (2006). Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data.. The Lancet, 367(9524), pp. 1747-1757.

Rockett IRH. (1999). Population and health: An introduction to epidemiology. Population Bulletin, 54(4), pp. pp.48.

Szreter S (2003). The Population Health Approach in Historical Perspective. American Journal of Public Health., 93(3), pp. 421-431.

Evans R, Stoddart GC. (1990). Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Social Science & Medicine, 33, pp. 347-1363.

Crimmins E, Kim JK, Vasunilashorn S (2010). Biodemography: New approaches to understanding trendsand differences in population health and mortality. Demography, 47(1), pp. S41-S64.

McDonald JT & Kennedy S (2004). Insights into the 'healthy immigrant effect': health status and health service use of immigrants to Canada.. Social Science & Medicine, 59(8), pp. 1613-1627.

Wilkinson RG & Pickett KE (2006). Income inequality and population health: A review and explanation of the evidence. Social Science & Medicine., 62(7), pp. 1768-1784.

Kindig DA. (2007). Understanding Population Health Terminology. Milbank Quarterly, 85(1), pp. 139-161.

Murray CJL and others (2012). Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet, 380(9859), pp. 2197-223.

Montgomery M. (2009). Urban poverty and health in developing countries. Population Bulletin, 64(2), pp. pp.20.

Koplan JP, Bond TC, Merson MH, Reddy KS, Rodriguez MH, Sewankambo NK, Wasserheit JN; Consortium of Universities for Global Health Executive Board (2009). Towards a common definition of global health.. Lancet, 373(9679), pp. 1993-1995.

Lim SS and others (2012). A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributableto 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for theGlobal Burden of Disease Study 2010.. The Lancet, 380(9859), pp. 2224-60.

Kindig, DA, Stoddart G. (2003). What is population health?. American Journal of Public Health, 93, pp. 366-369.

Textbooks

Murray CJL and others (2002). Summary Measures of Population Health: Concepts, Ethics, Measurement and Applications. Pub: Geneva: World Health Organisation.

Lindstrand A et al. (2006). Global health: an introductory text book. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Skolnik R. (2008). Essentials of global health. Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Publishers Inc..

Crisp N. (2010). Turning the world upside down: The search for global health in the 21st Century. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd.

Kathryn H. Jackobsen (2008). Introduction to Global Health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Ewles, L. (2005). Key topics in public health: essential briefings on prevention and health promotions.. Elsevier,: Churchill Livingstone.

Barry B Hughes, Randall Kuhn, Cecilia M. Peterson, Dale S. Rothman & Jose R. Solorzano (2011). Improving Global Health: Patterns of potential human progress Volume 3.. Oxford University Press.

Marmot M & Wilkinson RG (Eds.) (2009). Social Determinants of Health. Oxford: OUP.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External