Section outline

  • Topic: Mother and Child Health – Child Health – Inequalities in Child death, Neonatal Mortality, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Malaria, Vaccine- Preventable Diseases, Undernutrition and Breastfeeding, Global Child Health Initiatives, The Rights of Children.

    Health of Younger Adults – Health in Early Adulthood; Sex Gender and Health; Reproductive Health and Maternal Mortality; Family Planning, Fertility, Population Growth; Population Planning Policies; Sexual and Reproductive Health: the human rights issue.

    Literature: Introduction to global health, Second Edition, 2014, Kathryn H. Jacobson, Chapter 5, pp 87-104; Chapter 6, pp 109-130.

    Global Health, An Introductory Textbook, 2014, Ann Lindstrand, Staffan Bergstrom, Hans Rosling, Birgitta rubenson, Bo Stenson, Thorkild Tylleskar, pp 99-116, 233-249.