Child Health

• Because I am a Girl annual reports published by Plan International.
• Children’s Environmental Health resources provided by the World Health Organization.
• Dimmock, S., et al. (2011). Together with children – for children: A guide for non-governmental organizations accompanying children in CRC reporting. Geneva: NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (1.79 Mb pdf)
• Gordon, B., Mackay, R., & Rehfuess, E. (2004). Inheriting the world: The atlas of children’s health and the environment. Brighton: WHO.
• Progress for Children, UNICEF. No. 1-11, 2004-2015.
• Save the Children UK. (2012). The child development index 2012: Progress, challenges and inequality. London: Save the Children UK.
• The state of the world’s children, UNICEF (1996-current). Library has copies: 362.7 G767s.
• UNFPA. (2013). State of world population 2013: Motherhood in childhood: Facing the challenges of adolescent pregnancy. New York: UNFPA.
• UNICEF. (2004). Summary report of the study on the impact of the implementation on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Florence, Italy: UNICEF. (742K pdf)
• World Council of Churches (WCC). (2005). Contact 179. (2.92 Mb pdf) Library has hard copy.

Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases

• Beaglehole, R., et al. (2011). UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases: Addressing four questions. The Lancet, 378. (StFX only)
• Heggenhougan, K., et al. (2003). The behaviorial and social aspects of malaria and its control: An introduction and annotated bibliography. Geneva: WHO.
• Inter-American Development Bank, Pan American Health Organization, Sabin Vaccine Institute. (2011). A call to action: Addressing soil-transmitted helminths in Latin America & the Caribbean. (1.93 Mb pdf)
• Kamal-Yanni, M. (2012). Salt, sugar, and malaria pills: How the affordable medicine facility-malaria endangers public health. (Oxfam Briefing Paper 163). Oxford: Oxfam GB.
• 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. (2012). Global report for research on infectious diseases of poverty. Geneva: WHO.

Community-Driven Health Impact Assessment

• Adelaide Recommendations on Healthy Public Policy, Second International Conference on Health Promotion, Adelaide, South Australia, April 5-9, 1988.
• Antigonish Town and County Community Health Board (ATCCHB). (2002). Community health impact assessment tool. Antigonish, NS: ATCCHB. (156K pdf)
• Bean, W. (2000). Community development and adult education: Locating practice in its roots. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 85, 67-76. (StFX only)
• Brown, C., Harrison, D., Burns, H., & Ziglio, E. (2014). Governance for health equity: Taking forward the equity values and goals of health 2020 in the WHO European region. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. (662K pdf)
• Canadian Public Health Association. (n.d.). PATH Project & PATH Network: Antigonish, NS. Colleen Cameron (Coady Institute) provides an overview of the PATH Project and its success.
• Chilaka, M. A. & Ndioho, I. (2014). Strategies and incentives for enhancing the application of health impact assessment (HIA) in Nigeria: A view from those who should know. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. (StFX only)
• Coady, M. (2010). Community health impact assessment: Fostering community learning and healthy public policy at the local level. Proceedings of the 29th National CASAE Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, May 30-June 1. (161K pdf)
• Eaton, S. & Cameron, C. (2008). Community health impact assessment: Keppoch-Beaver Mountain project: final report. Antigonish, NS: PATH Network. (303K pdf)
• Eaton, S., St-Pierre, L. & Ross, M.-C. (2009). Influencing healthy public policy with community health impact assessment. Montreal: National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy. (428K pdf)
• Elliott, E. & Francis, S. (2005). Making effective links to decision-making: Key challenges for health impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 25, 7-8, 747-757. (StFX only)
• Elliott, E. & Williams, G. (2004). Developing a civic intelligence: Local involvement in HIA. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 24(2), 231-243. (StFX only)
• Fehr, R., Viliani, F., Nowacki, J., & Martuzzi, M. (Eds.). (2014). Health in impact assessments: Opportunities not to be missed. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. (2.26 Mb pdf)
• Ghosh, S. & Cameron, C. (2006). Strengthening communities through community health impact assessment. Presented at the Strength Based Strategies conference, Hyderabad, India, November 10-12. (32K pdf)
• Gillis, D. E. & English, L. M. (2001). Extension and health promotion: An adult learning approach. Journal of Extension, 39(3).
• Health Impact Assessment, resources from the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• Kearney, M. (2004). Walking the walk? Community participation in HIA: A qualitative interview study. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 24(2), 217-229. (StFX only)
• Lang, T. (2001). Public health and colonialism: A new or old problem? Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 55(3), 162-163. (StFX only)
• Lee, J. L., Robbel, N. & Dora, C. (2013). Cross-country analysis of the institutionalization of health impact assessment (Social determinants of health discussion paper 8). Geneva: WHO. (787K pdf)
• Leppo, K., et al. (Eds.). (2013). Health in all policies: Seizing opportunities, implementing policies. Finland: Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. (2.22 Mb pdf)
• Mahoney, M. E., Potter, J.-L. & Marsh, R. S. (2007). Community participation in HIA: Discords in teleology and terminology. Critical Public Health, 17(3), 229-241. (StFX only)
• Metcalfe, O. & Higgins, C. (2009). Health impact assessment contributing to healthy public policy. Public Health, 123(4), 295. (StFX only)
• Mindell, J. S., Boltong, A. & Forde, I. (2008). A review of health impact assessment frameworks. Public Health, 122(11), 1177-1187. (StFX only)
• Mittelmark, M. B. (2001). Promoting social responsibility for health: Health impact assessment and healthy public policy at the community level. Health Promotion International, 16(3), 269-274. (StFX only)
• The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is presented at the first International Conference on Health Promotion, Ottawa, November 21, 1986.
• PATH II Project. (2002). PATHways II: The Next Steps: A Guide to Community Health Impact Assessment. Antigonish, NS: PATH. (277K pdf)
• Peters, N. (2002). Applying community health impact assessment to rural community health planning: Evaluation report. Antigonish, NS: Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre. (671K pdf)
• Scott-Samuel, A. (1998). Health impact assessment: Theory into practice. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 52(11), 704-705. (StFX only)
• South, J. (2015). A guide to community-centered approaches for health and wellbeing: Briefing. London: Public Health England. (101K pdf)
• Wallerstein, N. (2006). What is the evidence on effectiveness of empowerment to improve health?. Copenhagen: WHO. (359K pdf)
• Watts, T. (2002). Assessing the impact of the People Assessing Their Health (PATH) Project. Antigonish, NS: PATH Network. (441K pdf)
• Winkler, M., et al. (2013). Untapped potential of health impact assessment. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 91(4).
• Wismar, M., Blau, J., Ernst, K. & Figueras, J. (Eds.). (2007). The effectiveness of health impact assessment: Scope and limitations of supporting decision-making in Europe. Brussels: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

Climate Change & Food Security

• Bell-Sheeter, A. (2004). Food sovereignity assessment tool. First Nations Development Institute. (2.17 Mb pdf)
• Fook, A. (2011). Gender, IFIs, and food insecurity. Published by Gender Action. (1.28 Mb pdf)
• The Gaia Foundation works against climate change in Africa, South America, Asia and Europe by regenerating ecosystems, enhancing traditional knowledge and practices and strengthening community self-governance.
• Government Office for Science. (2011). The future of food and farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability: final project report. (4.26 Mb pdf)
• Institute for Food and Development Policy / Food First analyzes the causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and develops solutions.
• Naylor, R., et al. (2007). The ripple effect: Biofuels, food security and the environment. Environment, 49(9), 31-43. (StFX only)
• Pettit, J. (2004). Climate justice: A new social movement for atmospheric rights. IDS Bulletin, 35(3), 102-106. (StFX only)
• Portier, C.J., et al. (2010). A human health perspective on climate change: A report outlining the research needs on the human health effects of climate change. Published by Environmental Health Perspectives and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. (5.0 Mb pdf)
• Reid, H., et al. (Eds.). (2009). Community-based adaptation to climate change. PLA Notes, no. 60. (1.37 Mb pdf)
• United Nations. (2010). Climate change: Food and nutrition security implications. SCN News, no. 38. (5.42 Mb pdf)
• WHYHunger is a leader in the fight against global hunger and poverty. It strives to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots initiatives that inspire community empowerment.

Community Development and Health

• Apusigah, A. (2005). Diagnosing poverty in northern Ghana: Institutional versus community views. Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 2(2), 1-14.
• Chile, L., & Simpson, G. (2004). Spirituality and community development: Exploring the link between the individual and the collective. Community Development Journal 39(4), 318-331. (StFX only)
• Frank, F., & Smith, A. (1999). The community development handbook: A tool to build community capacity. Hull, QC: Human Resources Development Canada. (199K pdf)
• Fraser, H. (2005). Four different approaches to community participation. Community Development Journal, 40(3), 286-300. (StFX only)
• Harvey, P., & Reed, R. (2007). Community managed water supplies in Africa: Sustainable or dispensable? Community Development Journal, 42(3), 365-378. (StFX only)
• Kane, M. (2008). The World Bank, community development and education for social justice. Community Development Journal, 43(2), 194-209. (StFX only)
• Kuenzi, M. (2006). Non-formal education and community development in Senegal. Community Development Journal, 41(2), 210-222. (StFX only)
• Morrison, V. (2015). Health inequalities and intersectionality (Briefing note). Montreal, QC: National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy. (667K pdf)
• Tesoriero, F. (2005). Strengthening communities through women’s self-help groups in South India. Community Development Journal, 41(3), 321-333. (StFX only)
• University of Kansas. (2011). Community tool box. A resource that promotes community health and development by providing essential skills for building healthy communities.
• Ward, C., et al. (2008). Framing development: Community and NGO perspectives in Mali. Community Development Journal, 44(4), 470-487. (StFX only)
• WHO. (2008). Community-directed interventions for major health problems in Africa: A multi-country study: final report. Geneva: WHO. (4.65 Mb pdf)
• Williams, L. (2004). Culture and community development: Towards new conceptualizations and practice. Community Development Journal, 39(4), 345-359. (StFX only)

Community Health Organizations

• Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association, publications including PATH (People Assessing Their Health) and CHIAT (Community Health Impact Assessment Tools) resources.
• Health Impact Assessment: Information & Insight for Policy Decisions, a joint endeavor of Partnership for Prevention and the UCLA School of Public Health.
• HIA Connect
• Human Impact Partners is transforming the policies and places people need to live healthy lives.
• International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) is a global network on best practice in the use of impact assessment.
• National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy works to increase the expertise of public health actors across Canada in healthy public policy through the development, sharing and use of knowledge.
• Social determinants of health and health inequalities, Government of Canada.
• Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit (WHIASU)
• Wellesley Institute engages in research, policy and community mobilization to advance population health.

Community Health Toolkits and Training Manuals

• Community health impact assessment tool. Antigonish, NS: Antigonish Town & County Community Health Board, 2002. (156K pdf)
• Kemm, J. (2001). Health impact assessment: A tool for healthy public policy. Health Promotion International, 16(1), 79-85. (StFX only)
• Labonte, R. & Feather, J. (1996). Handbook on using stories in health promotion practice. Ottawa: Health Canada. (5.90 Mb pdf)
• PATHways to building healthy communities in eastern Nova Scotia: The PATH project resource. Antigonish, NS: People Assessing Their Health, the PATH Project, 1997. (5.15 Mb pdf)
• PATHways II: The next steps: a guide to community health impact assessment. Antigonish, NS: Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre, 2002. (277K pdf)

Conflict and Violence

• Gardam, J. (2005). The neglected aspect of women and armed conflict-progressive development of the law. Netherlands International Law Review, 52, 197-219. (369K pdf)
• Haeri, M., & Puechguirbal, N. (2010). From helplessness to agency: Examining the plurality of women’s experiences in armed conflict. International Review of the Red Cross, 92(877). (298K pdf)
• Inter-Parliamentary Union & UNICEF. (2007). Eliminating violence against children. Geneva: IPU.
• Save The Children. (2005). Forgotten casualties of war: Girls in armed conflict. London: Save the Children. (778K pdf)
• UNICEF. (2005). Violence against children in West and Central Africa: A concise appraisal. Dakar, Senegal: UNICEF. (1.37 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2009). Violence prevention: The evidence: overview. Geneva: WHO. (1.35 Mb pdf)

Disabilities

• United Nations. (2009). Disability and HIV policy brief. (216K pdf)
• World report on disability, published in 2011 by the World Health Organization and the World Bank. Library has copy: 362.4 W893w.

Drug and Substance Abuse

• Illicit drugs: Social impacts and policy responses, UNRISD Briefing Paper No. 2, (1994). (182K pdf)
• Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment – STFX access only.
• The social impact of drug abuse, study was originally prepared by UNDCP as a position paper for the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, March 1995. (211K pdf)
• 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.

Environment and Health

• Chakraborti, D., et. al. (2003). Arsenic groundwater contamination in middle Ganga Plain, Bihar India: A future danger. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(9). (StFX only)
• Costello, A. et al. (2009). Managing the health effects of climate change. The Lancet, 373, 1693-1733. (StFX only)
• DARA. (2012). Climate vulnerability monitor: A guide to the cold calculus of a hot planet (2nd ed.). Madrid: DARA.
• Gordon, B., MacKay, R. & Rehfuess, E. (2004). Inheriting the world: The atlas of children’s health and the environment. Geneva: WHO.
• PAHO. (2013). Health, environment and sustainable development: Towards the future we want. Washington, DC: PAHO. (3.58 Mb pdf)
• People and the Planet explores issues of population, poverty, health, consumption and the environment.
• Pettit, J. (2004). Climate justice: A new social movement for atmospheric rights. IDS Bulletin, 35(3), 102-106. (StFX only)
• Portier, C. J., et al. (2010). A human health perspective on climate change: a report outlining the research needs on the human health effects of climate change. Research Triangle Park, NC: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. (5.0 Mb pdf)
• UNICEF. (2008). Climate change and children: A human security challenge (Policy review paper). Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. (543K pdf)
• WHO. (2003). Climate change and human health: Risks and responses. Geneva: WHO. (1.51 Mb pdf) Library has copy: 362.19698 M228c.
• WHO. (2003). Making a difference: Indicators to improve children’s environmental health. Geneva: WHO. (628K pdf)

Food Security / Nutrition

• Bunting, M. (2011, January 21). How can we feed the world and still save the planet? [Blog post].
• Committee on World Food Security (CFS). (2011). Global strategic framework for food security and nutrition: annotated outline. (125K pdf)
• Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) exchanges knowledge on food security and nutrition through online discussions.
• Hansen-Kuhn, K. (2011). Making U.S. trade policy serve global food security goals. [n.l.]: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
• Global hunger index. Published annually by IFPRI (earlier editions) and Concern Worldwide.
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers. (2013). Global food: Waste not, want not. With the global population growing, mankind needs to ensure it has the food resources available to feed all these people. Engineers need to promote sustainable ways of reducing waste from the farm to the supermarket and to the consumer.
• 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)
• Patel, R. (2013, June 12). G8 vision for tackling hunger wilfully ignores the politics of malnutrition [Blog post].
• 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, resources from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
• The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, annual publication by FIAN International, et al.
• The state of food insecurity in the world, annual editions published by FAO.
• United Nations. (2010). Climate change: Food and nutrition security implications. SCN News, no. 38. (5.42 Mb pdf)
• United Nations. (2010). Progress in nutrition: 6th report on the world nutrition situation. Geneva: WHO. (2.08 Mb pdf)
• United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
• United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition. (2010). Progress in nutrition: 6th report on the world nutrition situation. (2.08 Mb pdf)
• Urquhart, P. (2010). WFP and climate change: A review of ongoing experience and recommendations for action (World Food Programme occasional paper no. 23). Rome: World Food Programme. (530K pdf)
• World Food Programme. (2009). WFP gender policy: Promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in addressing food and nutrition challenges. Rome: WFP. (1.50 Mb pdf)
• World hunger series: Hunger and markets is the third volume in the World Food Programme’s World Hunger Series.
• WHO. (2000). Nutrition for Health and Development: A Global Agenda for Combating Malnutrition. (416K pdf)

Food Security Resources

• Brady, J. (2014). Local sustainable food systems: Ensuring food for today and our future. [Ontario]: HC Link. (3.06 Mb pdf)
• Community food security. In Wikipedia.
• FAO. (2013). Resilient livelihoods: Disaster risk reduction for food and nutrition security. (2.27 Mb pdf)
• Food Action Research Centre (FoodARC), located at Mount Saint Vincent University, is committed to research and action to build food security in Nova Scotia and beyond.
• Food Secure Canada. (2010). Food democracy and governance: Towards a people’s food policy process (Discussion paper 10). (620K pdf)
• Hassanein, N. (2003). Practicing food democracy: A pragmatic politics of transformation. Journal of Rural Studies, 19, 77-86. (StFX only)
• IDS. (2012). Standing on the threshold: Food justice in India [Podcast].
• IDS. (2012). Standing on the threshold: Food justice in India [Video]. IDS Director Lawrence Haddad and Oxfam India’s Biraj Swain discuss the new IDS Bulletin on food justice in India. (6:19 min.)
• Sachs, C. & Alston, M. (2010). Global shifts, sedimentations, and imaginaries: An introduction to the special issue on women and agriculture. Signs, 35(2), 277-287. (StFX only)
• Swain, B. (2012, July 16). Fighting for food security in India [Blog post].
• TEDx Talks. (2012). Impact is a moment: Kurt Higgins at TEDxYork U 2012 [Video file]. (12:47 min.)
• United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
• La Via Campesina, international peasant’s movement.
• The world according to Monsanto, a documentary about biotech company Monsanto’s control over the seed and food chain. [Video]. (109 min.)

Gender

• Barker, G., Ricardo, C. & Nascimento, M. (2007). Engaging men and boys in changing gender-based inequity in health: Evidence from programme interventions. Geneva: WHO. (1.20 Mb pdf)
• The global gender gap report 2020. Geneva: World Economic Forum.
• Greig, A. (2009). Troublesome masculinities: Masculinity in trouble. IDS Bulletin, 40(1), 69-76. (StFX only)
• UNDP & AusAID. (2009). The gendered dimensions of disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change: Stories from the Pacific. Suva, Fiji: UNDP Pacific Centre. (973K pdf)
• WHO. (2007). Fatherhood and health outcomes in Europe. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. (645K pdf)

Global Burden of Illness and Disease

• Hunt, P., Stewart, R., Bueno de Mesquita, J. & Oldring, L. (2007). Neglected diseases: A human rights analysis (Social, Economic and Behavioural Research Special Topics report no. 6). (642K pdf)
• 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).
• WHO. (2009). Global health risks: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks. Geneva: WHO. (924K pdf)
• WHO. (2010). Working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases: First WHO report on neglected tropical diseases. Geneva: WHO. (2.96 Mb pdf)
• WHO’s Global Health Observatory (GHO) data, mortality and global health estimates.
• World malaria reports, 2008-current. Geneva: WHO.

Globalization and Health

• Labonte, R. (2003). Dying for trade: Why globalization can be bad for our health (Social Justice Series). Toronto: CSJ Foundation for Research and Education. (552K pdf).
• Labonte, R. (2004). Fatal indifference: The G8, Africa, and global health. Ottawa: IDRC. Library has copy: 362.1096 L113h.
• Labonte, R. & Gagnon, M. (2010). Framing health and foreign policy: Lessons for global health diplomacy. Globalization and Health, 6(14).
• Labonte, R. & Sanger, M. (2006). Glossary of the World Trade Organisation and public health: Part 1. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60. (192K pdf) (StFX only)
• Labonte, R., Mohindra, K. & Lencucha, R. (2011). Framing international trade and chronic disease. Globalization and Health, 7(21). (403K pdf)
• Labonte, R., Schrecker, T. & Gupta, A.S. (2005). Health for some: Death, disease and disparity in a globalizing era. Toronto: CSJ Foundation for Research and Education. (714K pdf) Library has copy: 362.1042 L113h.
• Milner, A., et al. (2011). Globalisation and suicide: An empirical investigation in 35 countries over the period 1980-2006. Health & Place, 17(4), 996-1003. (StFX only)
• Ravishankar, N., et al. (2009). Financing of global health: Tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007. The Lancet, 373/9681, 2113-2124. (StFX only)
• Steel, Z., Liddell, B., Bateman-Steel, C. & Zwi, A. (2011). Global protection and the health impact of migration interception. PLoS Medicine, 8(6).

Governance and Health

• Kickbusch, I. & Gleicher, D. (2012). Governance for health in the 21st century. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. (2.32 Mb pdf)
• Ng, N. & Prah Ruger, J. (2011). Global health governance at a crossroads. Global Health Governance, 4(2). (383K pdf)

Health and Development

• Bambra, C., Fox, D. & Scott-Samuel, A. (2005). Towards a politics of health. Health Promotion International, 20(2). (StFX only)
• Clark, R. (2011). World health inequality: Convergence, divergence, and development. Social Science & Medicine, 72(4), 617-624. (StFX only)
• Hancock, T. (2009). Act locally: Community-based population health promotion. A report for the Senate Subcommittee on Population Health. (665K pdf)
• Millennium Development Goals Africa Steering Group. (2008). Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. [n.l.]: United Nations. (2.32 Mb pdf)
• Ocean, C. (2005). Policies of exclusion, poverty & health. Podcasts available for download.
• United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals reports, 2005-2015.
• Wallerstein, N. (2006). What is the evidence on effectiveness of empowerment to improve health? (Health Evidence Network report). Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. (359K pdf)

Health and Trade

• Berne Declaration, CCIC, & Misereor. (2010). Human rights impact assessment for trade and investment agreements. Report of the Expert Seminar, June 23-24, Geneva, Switzerland. (413K pdf)
• Blouin, C., Chopra, M., & van der Hoeven, R. (2009). Trade and social determinants of health. The Lancet, 373/9662, 502-507. (StFX only)
• Fidler, D., Drager, N. & Lee, K. (2009). Managing the pursuit of health and wealth: the key challenges. The Lancet, 373/9660, 325-331. (StFX only)
• Lee, K., Sridhar, D., & Patel, M. (2009). Bridging the divide: Global governance of trade and health. The Lancet, 373/9661, 416-422. (StFX only)
• Legge, D., Sanders, D., & McCoy, D. (2009). Trade and health: the need for a political economic analysis.The Lancet, 373/9663, 527-529. (StFX only)
• MacDonald, R. & Horton, R. (2009). Trade and health: time for the health sector to get involved. The Lancet, 373/9660, 273-274. (StFX only)
• Smith, R., Chanda, R., & Tangcharoensathien, V. (2009). Trade in health-related services. The Lancet, 373/9663, 593-601. (StFX only)
• Smith, R., Correa, C., & Oh, C. (2009). Trade, TRIPS, and pharmaceuticals. The Lancet, 373/9664, 684-691. (StFX only)
• Smith, R., Lee, K., & Drager, N. (2009). Trade and health: an agenda for action. The Lancet, 373/9665, 768-773. (StFX only)
• Songkhla, M. N. (2009). Health before profits? Learning from Thailand’s experience. The Lancet, 373/9662, 441-442. (StFX only)
• Stiglitz, J. E. (2009). Trade agreements and health in developing countries. The Lancet, 373/9661, 363-365. (StFX only)

Human Rights and Health

• Health GAP (Global Access Project) is an organization of AIDS and human rights activists campaigning against the denial of treatment, funding of AIDS treatment programs, and the spread of HIV.
• Health and Human Rights Journal is open access and published by the Harvard School of Public Health.
• Nygren-Krug, H. (2002). 25 questions and answers on health and human rights (Health & Human Rights publications series issue no. 1). Geneva: WHO. (760K pdf)
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) & World Health Organization (WHO). A human rights-based approach to health. (288K pdf)

ICT and Health

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

Men’s Roles in Health

• Promoting gender equality: Engaging men and boys, resources from UNFPA.

Mental Health

• Funk, M., et al. (2010). Mental health and development: Targeting people with mental health conditions as a vulnerable group. Geneva: WHO. (1.55 Mb pdf)
• Mental health, WHO resource page.
• WHO. (2011). Mental health atlas 2011. Geneva: WHO. (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

• 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 no.172: Health for All. Geneva: World Council of Churches. (1.37 Mb pdf) Library has hard copy.
• Contact no.174: Community-Based Health Insurance. Geneva: World Council of Churches. (1.46 Mb pdf) Library has hard copy.
• Johnson, A., et al. (2012). Hidden costs: The direct and indirect impact of user fees on access to malaria treatment and primary care in Mali. Social Science & Medicine, 75(10). (StFX only)
• PAHO & WHO. (2003). Primary health care in the Americas: Lessons learned over 25 years and future challenges (Resolution CD44.R6). 44th Directing Council, 55th session of the Regional Committee, Washington, DC, September 22-26. (15K pdf)
• WHO. (2008). Community-directed interventions for major health problems in Africa: a multi-country study: final report. Geneva: WHO. (4.65 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2008). The world health report 2008: Primary health care now more than ever. Geneva: WHO. (3.07 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2010). The world health report: Health systems financing: the path to universal coverage. Geneva: WHO.

Social Determinants of Health

• Blas, K. & Sivasankara Kurup, A. (2010). Equity, social determinants and public health programmes. Geneva: WHO. (1.96 Mb pdf)
• Blas, E., Sommerfeld, J., & Sivasankara Kurup, A. (Eds.). (2011). Social determinants approaches to public health: From concept to practice. Geneva: WHO. (2.28 Mb pdf)
• Bryant, T., Raphael, D., Schrecker, T., & Labonte, R. (2011). Canada: A land of missed opportunity for addressing the social determinants of health. Health Policy, 101(1), 44-58. (StFX only)
• CSDH. (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Geneva: World Health Organization. (7.28 Mb pdf) Library has copy: 362.1 W893c.
  • Executive Summary (4.25 Mb pdf)
• Czyzewski, K. (2011). Colonialism as a broader social determinant of health. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2(1). (282K pdf)
• Irwin, A. & Scali, E. (2005). Action on the social determinants of health: Learning from previous experiences. Background paper prepared for the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Geneva: WHO. (530K pdf)
• Labonte, R. & Schrecker, T. (2006). Globalization and social determinants of health: Analytic and strategic review paper. Ottawa: Institute of Population Health. (288K pdf)
• Lavin, T. & Metcalfe, O. (2009). Economic arguments for addressing social determinants of health inequalities (DETERMINE working document no. 4). Ireland: Institute of Public Health. (1.0 Mb pdf)
• Lee, J. H., Sadana, R., et al. (Eds.). (2011). Improving equity in health by addressing social determinants. Geneva: WHO. (1.50 Mb pdf)
• Mikkonen, J. & Raphael, D. (2010). Social determinants of health: The Canadian facts. Toronto: York University School of Health Policy and Management. (4.31 Mb pdf)
  • Additional resources
• Morrison, V. (2015). Health inequalities and intersectionality (Briefing note). Montreal, QC: National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy. (667K pdf)
• Raphael, D., Curry-Stevens, A., & Bryant, T. (2008). Barriers to addressing the social determinants of health: Insights from the Canadian experience. Health Policy, 88(2-3), 222-235. (StFX only)
• Reading, C. L. & Wien, F. (2009). Health inequalities and social determinants of Aboriginal peoples’ health. Prince George, BC: National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. (1.68 Mb pdf)
• Resource articles as recommended by the documentary series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?. The series explores racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health.
• Simpson, R. & Davies, T. (2011). Without walls: Towards health and well-being in the twenty-first century. Manchester: Socialist Health Association.
• Social determinants and Indigenous health: The international experience and its policy implications. (2007). Report of the International Symposium on the Social Determinants of Indigenous Health, Adelaide, April 29-30. (467K pdf)
• Social determinants of health, World Health Organizations’s collection of resources.
• Waldron, I., Price, S., & Eghan, F. (2014). North End matters: Using the People Assessing Their Health Process (PATH) to explore the social determinants of health in the African Nova Scotian community in the North End: A pilot study report. Halifax, NS: Dalhousie University. (5.11 Mb pdf)
• Waldron, I., Price, S., & Grant, J. (2015). Final study report for North End matters: Using the People Assessing their Health Process (PATH) to explore the social determinants of health in the Black community in the North End. Halifax: Dalhousie University. (5.88 Mb pdf)
• Walsh, D., et al. (2016). History, politics and vulnerability: Explaining excess mortality in Scotland and Glasgow. Glasgow: Glasgow Centre for Population Health. (4.54 Mb pdf)
• WHO. (2005). Action on the social determinants of health: Learning from previous experiences. Geneva: WHO. (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. (1.91 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. Geneva: WHO. (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. Geneva: WHO. (6.89 Mb pdf)

Women and Health

• Domestic violence against women and girls, Innocenti Digest, No. 6, (2000). (297K pdf)
• Freedman, L.P., et al. (2005). Transforming health systems to improve the lives of women and children. The Lancet, 365/9463, 997-1000. (StFX only)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. (2011). Eliminating health inequities: every woman and every child counts. Geneva: Author. (1.77 Mb pdf)
• Nair, S., Kirbat, P. & Sexton, S. (2004). A decade after Cairo: Women’s health in a free market economy (Briefing no. 31). Dorset, UK: The Corner House. (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. (StFX only)
• WHO. (2012). Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010. Geneva: WHO.
• WHO. (2012). WHO recommendations: Optimizing health worker roles to improve access to key maternal and newborn health interventions through task shifting. Geneva: WHO.

Videos

• Al Jazeera English. (2007). Every woman – child soldier [Video file]. A documentary on child soldiers with emphasis on girl soldiers. (12:09 min.)
• Gender and the MDGs, UNIFEM video series highlights MDGs from a gender perspective.
• Imam, P. (2004). Health for all? [Video file]. The one question that forms the basis of our movement. (1:15 min.)
• Imam, P. (2006). Sentenced for a lifetime [Video file]. This documentary explores the issue of mental illness in women in India. (3:20 min.)
• Imam, P. (2007). Flight 208 [Video file]. A satirical film concerning inequalities and filmed across the globe. (7:07 min.)

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).
• Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health newsletter, issues available: 1(2012)-current.
• 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 Canada, the Federal department is responsible for assisting Canadians with maintaining and improving their health.
• HealthWrights is committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups.
• Hesperian Health Guides is a non-profit publisher of books and newsletters for community-based health care.
• Human development reports, published by UNDP. Issues available: 1990-current.
• Indigenous Health, Government of Canada’s information about health care services and non-insured health benefits, careers, how to fight drug and substance use, environmental health, food safety and how to have a healthy pregnancy.
• Just for You – Immigrants, Government of Canada’s health care information page for immigrants.
• 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.
• Politics of Health Knowledge Network explores the impact of political decisions on health.
• Public Health Agency of Canada, promotes and protects the health of Canadians.
• Science and Development Network is dedicated to providing information about science and technology for the developing world.
• 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.