Topic: Global Health and Health Transition – Defining Health; Medicine and Public Health; Emergence of Global Health; Health Transitions in the 20th Century; Risk Factors, Prevention, Careers in Global Health. Measuring the Global Burden of Disease – Importance of health metrics, Measuring Health and Disease, Classifying Disease, Sources of Health Information.
Literature: Introduction to global health, Second Edition, 2014, Kathryn Jacobson, Chapter 1, pp 1-15, Chapter 2, pp 19-39, Chapter 4, pp 65-83 Global Health, An Introductory Textbook, 2014, Ann Lindstrand, Staffan Bergstrom, Hans Rosling, Birgitta rubenson, Bo Stenson, Thorkild Tylleskar, pp 9-49, 123-134.