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The literature below is presented by course theme. Note that for most titles, reading guidance will be provided on Canvas.

Health inequalities, health disparities, health inequity?

McCartney, G., Popham, F., McMaster, R., & Cumbers, A. (2019). Defining health and health inequalities. Public health, 172, 22-30.

Power

Solar, O., & Irwin, A. (2010). A conceptual framework for action on the social determinants of health. WHO Document Production Services, page 20-23

Harris, P., Baum, F., Friel, S., Mackean, T., Schram, A., & Townsend, B. (2020). A glossary of theories for understanding power and policy for health equity. J Epidemiol Community Health, 74(6), 548-552.

Friel, S., Townsend, B., Fisher, M., Harris, P., Freeman, T., & Baum, F. (2021). Power and the people's health. Social science & medicine, 282, 12 pages

Vulnerability

Diderichsen, F., Hallqvist, J., & Whitehead, M. (2019). Differential vulnerability and susceptibility: how to make use of recent development in our understanding of mediation and interaction to tackle health inequalities. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48(1), 268-274.

Chae, D. H., Snipes, S. A., Chung, K. W., Martz, C. D., & LaVeist, T. A. (2021). Vulnerability and resilience: Use and misuse of these terms in the public health discourse. American journal of public health, 111(10), 1736-1740.

Katz, A. S., Hardy, B. J., Firestone, M., Lofters, A., & Morton-Ninomiya, M. E. (2020). Vagueness, power and public health: use of ‘vulnerable‘ in public health literature. Critical Public Health, 30(5), 601–611.

Gender theory 

Connell, R. (2012). Gender, health and theory: conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective. Social science & medicine, 74(11), 1675-1683.

United nations development program. Report on Sexual and gender minorities, reading will focus on definition of this group and Sexual and minority health (pdf provided on Canvas) page 27-30 & 41-50

Behavior

Kelly, M. P., & Barker, M. (2016). Why is changing health-related behaviour so difficult? Public health, 136, 109-116.

Galea, S. Column (the chronicle series The healthiest Goldfish) on "Bad behavior" (link on Canvas)

Robeyns, I. (2005). The capability approach: a theoretical survey. Journal of human development, 6(1), 93–117.

Human rights and public health

Mann J. et al (1994). ‘Health and Human Rights’, Health and Human Rights 1(1), pp. 6-23

Meier B., Murphy T. & Gostin L. (2020) 'The Birth and Development of Human Rights for Health, in Meier B. & Gostin L. (eds) Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights, Chapter 1

The right to health

Tobin J. & Barrett D. (2020) 'The Right to Health and Health-Related Human Rights', in Meier B. & Gostin L. (eds) Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights Chapter 3 

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No 14 on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health, UN Doc No E/C.12/2000/4, 11 August 2000

Politics and health inequalities

Bambra, C., Fox, D., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2005). Towards a politics of health. Health promotion international, 20(2), 187-193.

Oneka, G., et al, (2017). A glossary of terms for understanding political aspects in the implementation of Health in All Policies (HiAP). J Epidemiol Community Health, 71(8), 835-838.

Mandatory seminar on human rights, the right to health and politics

Venkatapuram, S., Bell R., Marmot M (2010) 'The Right to Sutures: Social Epidemiology, Human Rights, and Social Justice', Health and Human Rights 12/2

Chapman A (2011), 'Missed Opportunities: The Human Rights Gap in the Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health', Journal of Human Rights 10(2) Galea, S. Column (the cronicle series The healthiest Goldfish), "Debating tradeoffs, sharing ideas" (link on Canvas)

The Commercial determinants of health (CDoH)

Video lecture by numerous scholars discussing CDoH, approximately 1,5 hours (link on Canvas)

Lacy-Nichols, J., et al (2023). Conceptualising commercial entities in public health: beyond unhealthy commodities and transnational corporations. The Lancet, 401(10383), 1214-1228.

Crosbie et al, Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Chapter 14, in The Commercial determinants of health. Edited by Maani, Petticrew, and Galea. 2023 (will be available as pdf on Canvas)

Methodological, conceotual and policy issues in current health inequality research 

Kelly-Irving, M., Ball, W. P., Bambra, C., Delpierre, C., Dundas, R., Lynch, J., … & Smith, K. (2023). Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research. Critical public health, 33(1), 37-47.