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Addressing Inequities and Social Determinants of Health in Asia & Africa

 


Block 1 -
SDH Framework

Block 2 -
Methods to study SDH

Block 3 -
Data analyses workshop

Block 4 -
Communication strategies

Block 5 -
Sharing results of the training

Block 1 - SDH Framework -
Training material

Session 1 - LISA BERKMAN - Social determinants of health - Overview
 
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Reading
Health in the Post - 2015 Development Agenda
Krieger - Embodiment: a conceptual glossary for epidemiology
World Conference on Social Determinants of Health

Session 2 - MARIA GLYMOUR - Education, socioeconomic status, and health

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Reading
Addo et al - Socioeconomic Status and Stroke : An Updated Review
Braveman et al - Socioeconomic Status in Health Research. One Size Does Not Fit All
Cohen et al - Education: A Missed Opportunity for Public Health Intervention
Kawachi et al - Money, schooling, and health: Mechanisms and causal evidence
McTavich et al - National female literacy, individual socio-economic status, and maternal health care use in sub-Saharan Africa
Vela et al - Eye care utilization by older adults in low, middle, and high income countries

Session 3 - SUBU SUBRAMANIAN - Contextual influences on health
 
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Reading
Sampson et al -
Assessing “neighborhood effects”: social processes and new directions in research
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Where We Live Matters for Our Health: Neighborhoods and Health
Anderson et al - Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life
Anderson - Encyclopedia of health & behavior
Subramanian et al - Revisiting Robinson: The perils of individualistic and ecologic fallacy
National Institutes of Health - Multilevel Modeling. 4. Multilevel Methods and Analyses

Session 4 - LISA BERKMAN - Social networks
 
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Reading
Berkman et al - From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium
Helleringer at al - Sexual network structure and the spread of HIV in Africa: evidence from Likoma Island, Malawi
Valente et al - Social network associations with contraceptive use among Cameroonian women in voluntary associations
Berkman et al - Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda county residents
WHO SAGE Data
WHO SAGE Data 2

Session 5 - TILL BAERNIGHAUSEN - Pathways from social and economic experience to health behavior and outcomes
 
Part 1 Part 2  

Reading
Correcting HIV Prevalence for Survey Non participation using Hec
Tanser et al - Cohort Profile: Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) and population-based HIV survey.
Kahn et al - HEALTH & DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM PROFILE. Profile: Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System.
Greenland - An introduction to instrumental variables for epidemiologists.
De Allegri et al - Step-wedge cluster-randomised community-based trials: An application to the study of the impact of community health insurance.

Session 6 - MARCIA CASTRO - Geospatial differences. The role of social and environmental place
 
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Reading
Halonen et al - Socioeconomic characteristics of residential areas and risk of death: Is variation in spatial units for analysis a source of heterogeneity in observed associations?
Gatrell, Rigby - Spatial Perspectives in Public Health
Rainham et al - Conceptualizing the healthscape: Contributions of time geography, location technologies and spatial ecology to place and health research
Voss et al - County child poverty rates in the US: a spatial regression approach

Session 7 - DAVID CANNING - Social policy and evaluation

Part 1 Part 2

Reading
Dataset 1
Dataset 2
Duflo et al - Using Randomization in Development. Economics Research: A Toolkit
Iacus et al - Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching
Canning et al - The effect of maternal tetanus immunization on children's schooling attainment in Matlab, Bangladesh: Follow-up of a randomized trial
Ardington et al - Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk


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