Session 5 Individual and Group consultation: Major paper and presentation 1. Please come with your topic for Presentation and Major paper 2. Discuss your rational for selecting the topic for both assignments 3. Share your ideas for presentation of your presentation session 4. Bring an outline of your reference 18
Session 6 A Priority Populations: Maternal Health Objectives: 1. To gain an appreciation of the relationship between social inequality, health and development. 2. To explore the evolution of development frameworks that address inequality and health (e.g. WID, WAD, GAD, MDGs). 3. To examine ways of promoting health and education of women and girls in selected cultural contexts. Key terms: gender, immigration, economic status, power Suggested Tutorial Activities A variety of large group and small group exercises will be used to demonstrate the intricacy of gender as a determinant of the health of women, their families and their communities. Required Readings Seear, M. (2007). An Introduction to International Health. Part V (p. 143-258). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. Asada, Y. (2005). A framework for measuring health inequity. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Available at: http://jech.bmjournals.com/cgi/content/full/59/8/700 Additional References Baldyga, W. & Petersmarck, K. (2005). Reducing health disparities: what is being done, what works. Prev Chronic Diseases (2) 2. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2005/apr/05_0002.htm Belli, PC, Bustreo, R, & Preker, A. (2005). Investing in children’s health: what are the economic benefits? Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83 (10), 721–800. Available at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/83/10/777/pdf Bryant, J. (2005). Children of international migrants in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines: a review of evidence and policies, Innocenti Working Paper No. 005- 05. Florence, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. Available at: http://www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/iwp2005_05.pdf Connelly, P, Murray LT, MacDonald, M & Parpart, J. (1995). Restructured worlds, restructured debates: globalization, development and gender. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Special Edition, 17-38. Freedman, LP, Waldman, RJ, de Pinho, H, Wirth, ME, Mushtaque, A, Chowdhury, R & 19