Resources

Publications and other information products

Alphabetical order

• 15by2015 Quality health care for all
  Global Health through Education Training and Service (GHETS), Doctors for Global Health, Health Alliance International (2008)
• 2009 Annual Report: It's Possible
  AED (2009)
• 2009 Report on the Global Campaign on Health MDGs
  Office of Prime Minister of Norway (2009)
• 2010 Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010)
  Countdown to 2015 Initiative (2010)
• 2010 Reality Check
  Action for Global Health (2010)
• Accelerating Action on the MDGs: Delivering for Girls, Women and Babies
  Women Deliver (2010)
• Access : how do good health technologies get to poor people in poor countries?
  Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (2010)
• Access transformed: Building a primary care workforce for the 21st century
  National Association of Community Health Centers (2008)
• Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Recommendations of the MDG Africa Steering Group
  United Nations (2008)
• Addressing financial sustainability in health systems
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Addressing the socioeconomic safety divide: a policy briefing
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2009)
• Africa’s development needs: state of implementation of various commitments, challenges and the way forward: Report of the UN Secretary-General
  United Nations (2008)
• An introduction to the human development and capability approach
  Earthscan/IDRC (2009)
• Analyzing health equity using household survey data analyzing: A guide to techniques and their implementation
  World Bank (2007)
• Are the MDGs priority in development strategies and aid programmes? Only few are!
  International Poverty Centre, United Nations Development Programme (2008)
• Atlas of Birth
  The White Ribbon Alliance (2009)
• Atlas of health in Europe, 2nd edition
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2008)
• Bridging the gap: The role of monitoring and evaluation in evidence-based policy making
  UNICEF, the World Bank and the International Development Evaluation Association (2008)
• Building capacity to eliminate health disparities: The founding meeting of the Academy for Health Equity
  Academy for Health Equity (2008)
• Capacity building, awareness raising actions to address the social determinants of health and to improve health equity
  EuroHealthNet (2009)
• Capacity planning in health care: a review of the international experience
  New policy brief on capacity planning
  WHO on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2008)
• Challenges and successes in reducing health disparities: Workshop summary
  US Institute of Medicine (2008)
• Child Health Now
  World Vision (2009)
• Children and AIDS: Fourth stocktaking report, 2009
  UNICEF (2009)
• Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09 (The)
  Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC - UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) (2008)
• Climate change and children: A human security challenge
  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (2009)
• Clinical social franchising: An Annual Compendium of Programs
  The Global Health Group - University of California, San Francisco (2009)
• Comparison of the health systems in China and India (A)
  RAND Corporation (2008)
• Costs of maternal-newborn illness and mortality
  World Health Organization (2006)
• Counselling for maternal and newborn health care: A handbook for building skills
  World Health Organization (2010)
• Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems: Better evidence, better policies, better development results
  UNICEF, in partnership with the World Bank, UN Economic Commission for Europe, IDEAS (International Development Evaluation Association), IOCE (International organization for Cooperation in Evaluation), DevInfo and MICS - Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (2009)
• Debate: Recognizing the achievements, addressing the challenges and getting back on track to achieve the MDGs by 2015
  United Nations (2008)
• Delivering on the Global Partnership for achieving the Millennium Development Goals
  United Nations, MDG Gap Task Force (2008)
• Developing a Canadian economic case for financing the social determinants of health
  Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc. CPRN (2008)
• Developing countries in the world economy: The future in the past?
  UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (2009)
• Diarrhoea : Why children are still dying and what can be done
  WHO/UNICEF (2009)
• Diseases know no frontiers: How effective are intergovernmental organisations in controlling their spread?
  Authority of the House of Lords, UK (2008)
• Does money matter? The effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador
  Princeton University/World Bank (2007)
• Economic arguments for addressing the social determinants of health inequalities
  Consortium for Action on the Socioeconomic Determinants of Health (SDH) (2009)
• Economic benefits of investing in child health
  World Bank (2003)
• Economic returns to investing in youth in developing countries: a review of the literature
  World Bank (2005)
• Economics of early childhood policy
  RAND Corporation, Sponsored by Casey Family Programs (2008)
• Education for all global monitoring report focuses on inequalities
  UNESCO (2008)
• Educational outreach visits could improve health-care practices
  WHO (2008)
• Effect of maternal-newborn ill-health on households: economic vulnerability and social implications
  World Health Organization (2006)
• Effectiveness of interventions to address health inequalities in the early years: A review of relevant literature (The)
  Scottish Government, Health Analytical Services Division (2008)
• effects of childhood stress on health across the lifespan (The)
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2008)
• El estado de la salud sexual y reproductiva en América Latina y el Caribe: una visión global
  Inter-American Development Bank (2008)
• Equity and child-survival strategies
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Essential medicines out of reach for most people
  World Health Organization and Health Action International(2008)
• Essential Public Health Functions as a Strategy for Improving Overall Health Systems Performance:
  PAHO/WHO (2008)
• Essential public health functions as a strategy for improving overall health systems performance: Trends and challenges since the public health in the Americas Initiative, 2000-2007
  Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (2008)
• Estimating the cost of scaling-up maternal and newborn health interventions to reach universal coverage: methodology and assumptions
  World Health Organization (2005)
• European perspectives on global health: Policy glossary
  European Foundation Centre, AISBL (2009)
• EUROTHINE - Tackling Health Inequalities In Europe
  EMC (Erasmus MC) Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam (2008)
• Evaluation of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood 1999-2007
  USAID (2007)
• Exclusión en salud: Estudio de caso, Bolivia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, México, Honduras
  Organización Panamericana de la Salud OPS/OMS (2009)
• Feeling the heat: Child survival in a changing climate
  Save the Children (2009)
• Final reports and additional documents of the Knowledge Networks
  WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) (2008)
• Financial crisis and global health: Report of a high-level consultation
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Financial incentives, healthcare providers and quality improvements
  QQUIP and the Quality Enhancing Interventions project (2008)
• Formative experiences: The interaction of caregiving, culture, and developmental psychobiology
  The Foundation for Psychocultural Research (2010)
• Fostering innovation for global health: Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 5
  Global Forum for Health Research (2008)
• From few to many -Ten years of health insurance expansion in Colombia
  Inter-American Development Bank (2009)
• General budget support in developing countries: ensuring the health sector's interest
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Georgia: Health system performance assessment
  WHO (2009)
• Getting the measure of quality: Opportunities and challenges
  The King’s Fund (2010)
• Global action for health system strengthening: Policy recommendations to the G8
  Japan Center for International Exchange (2009)
• Global burden of disease: 2004 update
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals 2010: Putting the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health into Action
  Network of Global Leaders (2010)
• Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals: Progress report
  NORAD, Norway (2008)
• Global Fund 2010 Innovation and Impact
  The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2010)
• Global Gender Gap Index 2010
  World Economic Forum (2010)
• Global health funding: how much, where it comes from and where it goes
  Oxford University Press (2009)
• Global health risks
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Global Hunger Index
  International Food Policy Research Institute (2010)
• Global Monitoring Report 2008
  The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development /The World Bank (2008)
• Global report on preterm birth & stillbirth: the foundation for innovative solutions and improved outcomes
  Global Allliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (2010)
• glossary of culture in epidemiology (A)
  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2008)
• good indicators guide (The): Understanding how to use and choose indicators
  UK NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (2008)
• Governing mandatory health insurance: Learning from experience
  World Bank (2008)
• Guide to develop a health promotion policy and compendium of policies
  Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal (2009)
• Handbook on monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health
  WHO (2009)
• Health Impact Fund: Making medicines accessible for all
  Incentives for Global Health (2008)
• Health in Crisis - New Report launched today
  Action for Global Health (2009)
• Health in the European Union: trends and analysis
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2009)
• Health inequalities: progress and next steps
  UK Department of Health (2008)
• Health inequality target monitoring: update to include data for 2006
  UK Department of Health (2007)
• Health is Global: a UK Government strategy
  UK Department of Health (2008)
• Health partnerships review: Focusing collaborative e­fforts on research and innovation for the health of the poor
  Global Forum for Health Research (2008)
• Health situation in the Americas - Basic indicators 2008
  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) (2009)
• Helping children survive
  Save the Children UK (2008)
• How can gender equity be addressed through health systems?
  WHO Regional Office for Europe, on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2009)
• How do communication structures shape the process of knowledge transfer?
  GREQAM Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (2008)
• How Japan reduced maternal mortality in one generation
  Immpact, University of Aberdeen (2008)
• HTSP 101: Everything you want to know about healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy
  Extending Service Deliver (ESD) Project (2008)
• Human Development Report 2010 — 20th Anniversary Edition
  
  United Nations Development Programme (2010)
• Human rights in healthcare: A framework for local action
  UK Department of Health (2008)
• Hunger and malnutrition
  Copenhagen Consensus Center (2008)
• Images from Darfur: UNFPA photo-exhibit January 2008
  UNFPA (2008)
• Immunization Essentials: A Practical Field Guide
  USAID (2003)
• Impact of climate change and bioenergy on nutrition
  FAO and IFPRI (2008)
• Impact on economic growth of investing in maternal-newborn health
  World Health Organizations (2003)
• Implementing health financing reform
  World Health Organization (2010)
• Improving children's health and the environment: Examples from the WHO European Region
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2009)
• Improving health service delivery in developing countries
  The World Bank (2009)
• Indigenous Peoples Still Among Poorest in World, but Progress Reported in Some Countries
  World Bank 2010)
• Indonesia Clinical Training Video: "Early Initiation of Breastfeeding"
  John Snow, Inc. (2008)
• Integration of Prenatal Care with the Testing and Treatment of HIV and Syphilis in Peru
  Harvard Medical School (2009)
• Japan health system review: Health systems in transition
  The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2009)
• Kindling hope in Northern Ethiopia by keeping adolescent girls in school
  UNFPA (2008)
• Knowledge translation toolkit: A resource for researchers
  Research Matters (2008)
• La inequidad en la salud: Hacia un abordaje integral
  IIED-América Latina Publicaciones (2008)
• Levels and trends in child mortality
  UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA/Population Division (2010)
• Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health
  UNFPA and FCI (2007))
• Local ideas, lasting solutions
  Academy for Educational Development (2010)
• Macro-economic shocks and infant survival: a global perspective
  Princeton (2005)
• Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development
  World Health Organization (2001)
• Making pregnancy safer : Annual report 2007
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Malaria Report 2010
  WHO (2010)
• Maternal and child health in Namibia
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Maternal Health: Investing in the Lifeline of Healthy Societies & Economies
  Africa Progress Panel (2010)
• Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5
  Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2010)
• Maternal, newborn, child and reproductive health
  Global Health Council (2010)
• Measuring financial protection in health
  World Bank (2008)
• Medical education for the 21st century: Teaching for health equity - Call for abstracts
  Ministry of Public Health, Cuba (2008)
• Meeting the challenge of change: AED annual report
  Academy for Educational Development (AED) (2008)
• Methodology and assumptions used to estimate the cost of scaling up selected child health interventions
  World Health Organization (2005)
• Millennium Development Goals in the WHO European Region: A situational analysis at the eve of the five-year countdown
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2010)
• Millennium Development Goals Report 2010
  United Nations (2010)
• Millennium Development Goals Report 2005 (The)
  United Nations (2005)
• Millennium Development Goals Report 2006 (The)
  United Nations (2006)
• Millennium Development Goals Report 2007 (The)
  United Nations (2007)
• Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health
  Realizing Rights, Health Financing Task Force and the Council of Women World Leaders (2008)
• Mongolian health system at a crossroads (The ): an incomplete transition to a post-Semashkom Model
  The World Bank (2008)
• Monitoring financial flows for health research 2007: Behind the global numbers
  The Global Forum for Health Research (2008)
• Moving forward equity in health
  Spain: Ministry of Health and Social Policy (2010)
• Narrowing the gaps to meet the goals
  UNICEF (2010)
• New advocacy organization for the Global Fund in Latin America launched
  The Global Fund (2008)
• New insights on poverty and life around the world
  TedTalks (2007)
• Non communicable diseases: A priority for women's health and development
  NCD Alliance (2011)
• Nordic health care systems: Recent reforms and current policy challenges
  World Health Organization on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2010)
• Nutrition in India: Facts and interpretations
  Princeton University, Allahabad University (2008)
• Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development
  United Nations Development Programme (2009)
• Packages of interventions for family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
  World Health Organization (2010)
• PAHO/WHO initiative: Proposed harmonized requirements for the licensing of vaccines in the Americas
  Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (2008)
• Participatory Assessment of Gugar Goge, an Entertainment-Education Radio Soap Opera in Nigeria - A Qualitative Assessment Report
  Population Media Center (2007)
• Performance-based contracting for health services in developing countries A toolkit
  World Bank (2008)
• Pictures in AIDucation: African communities talking sex, AIDS and pictures
  Trafford Publishing (2009)
• Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care: A guide for essential practice
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Pregnant women in Nigeria die due to Government negligence, according to Center for Reproductive Rights’ new report
  Centre for Reproductive Rights (2008)
• Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty
  Princeton University (2010)
• Primary health care, including health system strengthening
  World Health Organization Executive Board (2009)
• Progress for children: Achieving the MDGs with equity
  UNICEF (2010)
• Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation
  WHO/UNICEF (2008)
• Progress on sanitation and drinking-water: 2010 Update
  World Health Organization/UNICEF (2010)
• Promoting health equity: A resource to help communities address social determinants of health
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services (2008)
• Protecting health from climate change: connecting science, policy and people
  World Health Organization (2009)
• provision of neonatal services (The)
  Rand Corporation 2008
• Public choices, private decisions: Sexual and reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals
  UN Millennium Project (2006)
• Public stewardship of private providers in mixed health systems
  Results for Development Institute (2009)
• Reaching the Poor Policy Brief Series
  World Bank Institute (2008)
• Reaching the poor: Challenges for child health in the Western Pacific Region
  World Health Organization (2007)
• Recent decline of inequality in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru (The)
  The Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) (2009)
• Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries
  Réduire les barrières financières aux soins obstétricaux dans les pays à faibles ressources
  Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (2008)
• Reducing maternal deaths: evidence and action
  UK Department of International Development (2007)
• Reducing the impact of poverty on health and human development: Scientific approaches
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2008)
• Research strategy 2008-2013
  DFID (2008)
• Responding to requests for information on health systems from policy makers in Asian countries
  WHO, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (2007)
• Restoring hope: Reinvigorating the Millennium Development Goals
  International Monetary Fund (2010)
• Right to health
  UNOHCHR and WHO (2008)
• Role of intermediaries in getting evidence into policy and practice: Some useful lessons from examining consultancy-client relationships
  Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (2008)
• Rural health: Challenges of distance, opportunities for innovation
  National Health Committee, New Zealand (2010)
• SAVE THE CHILDREN : A fair chance at life - Why equity matters for child mortality
  7 SEPTEMBER 2010 - Four million child deaths could have been prevented over ten years if countries had made the same effort to help poor children as better-off ones, Save the Children said today.
• Saving Newborn Lives in Nigeria: Newborn health in the context of the Integrated Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Strategy
  Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria (2011)
• School feeding for improving the physical and psychosocial health of disadvantaged students
  JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd (2010)
• Science in action: Saving the lives of Africa's mothers, newborns and children
  ASADI (2009)
• Self-evaluation model and tool on the respect of children’s rights in hospital
  International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (2010)
• Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World
  BMC Public Health (2010)
• Social change and health in Sweden - 250 years of politics and practice
  Swedish National Institute of Public Health (2008)
• Social determinants of health and the role of local government
  Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA) UK (2010)
• Social determinants of health: The Canadian facts
  Juha Mikkonen and Dennis Raphael (2010)
• Social determinants of sexual and reproductive health: informing future research and programme implementation
  World Health Organization (2010)
• Social protection in health schemes for mother and child population: lessons learned from the Latin American Region
  PAHO (2008)
• Social protection in health schemes for mother and child population: lessons learned from the Latin American Region
  PAHO (2008)
• Social security reforms in Colombia: Striking demographic and fiscal balances
  International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2009)
• Sourcebook on access and applications: Models of use & case studies
  LearnLink Project (2008)
• Sources and Prices of Selected Medicines for Children
  UNICEF/WHO (2010)
• State health policies aimed at promoting excellent systems: A report on states’ roles in health systems performance
  National Academy for State Health Policy (2008)
• State of food insecurity in the world
  FAO (2009)
• State of Health Journalism in the U.S.
  Kaiser Family Foundation (2009)
• State of the World Children 2007
  UNICEF (2007)
• State of the World Children 2008
  UNICEF (2008)
• State of the World Mothers 2010: Women on the front lines of health care
  Save the Children (2010)
• State of the World Population 2010
  UNFPA (2011)
• State of the World's Children - Special edition
  UNICEF (2009)
• State of the world's mothers 2006: Saving the lives of mothers and newborns
  Save the Children (2006)
• State of the world's vaccines and immunization. Third edition
  World Health Organization, UNICEF & The World Bank (2009)
• State of World Population 2008
  Reaching common ground: culture, gender and human rights
  UNFPA (2008)
• State of World Population 2009: Facing a changing world - Women, population and climate
  United Nations Population Fund (2009)
• Successes and shortfalls: A report on the Global Campaign for Health
  Prime Minister of Norway (2008)
• Systems thinking for health systems strengthening
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Taking action against HIV and AIDS: Handbook for Parliamentarians
  UNAIDS, UNDP and the Inter- Parliamentary Union (2007)
• Taking Action: Nutrition for Survival, Growth & Development
  Action Against Hunger (ACF) (2010)
• Technical consultation on postpartum and postnatal care
  World Health Organization (2010)
• Telehealth in the developing world
  Royal Society of Medicine Press/IDRC (2009)
• The European health report 2009: Health and health systems
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2009)
• The Marmot review final report: Fair society, healthy lives
  University College London (2010)
• The MDGs in Europe and Central Asia: Achievements, challenges and the way forward
  United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (2010)
• Thinking of introducing social health insurance? Ten questions
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Towards universal access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector
  WHO,UNAIDS, UNICEF (2008)
• Tracking official development assistance for child health: challenges and prospects
  USAID (2006)
• Tracking progress on child and maternal nutrition: A survival and development priority
  UNICEF (2009)
• Traditional reproductive health care practices affecting community women in accessing their reproductive rights of maternal health care among the Ethnic Groups of Project Areas in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa: An anthropological study
  Bhoruka Public Welfare Trust (2008)
• Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2008
  WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank (2010)
• U.S. Commitment to Global Health
  US Institute of Medicine (2008)
• UK Parliament report highlights maternal deaths
  International Development Committee, United Kingdom (2008)
• UNAIDS/WHO : Eight-year trend shows new HIV infections down by 17%—most progress seen in sub-Saharan Africa
  24 NOVEMBER 2009 | GENEVA/SHANGHAI – According to new data in the 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update, new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years.
• Understanding health inequalities
  McGraw Hill (2009)
• UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010: ‘Reaching the marginalized’ launches
  UNESCO (2010)
• UNFPA: Adding it Up: The costs and benefits of investing in family planning and maternal health
  3 DECEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK– Maternal deaths in developing countries could be slashed by 70% and newborn deaths cut nearly in half if the world doubled investment in family planning and pregnancy-related care, shows a new report by the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
• United Nations Human Rights Council 2010 Resolution on maternal health
  Human Rights Council (2010)
• Voices from other fields
  DETERMINE (2009)
• Water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to combat childhood diarrhoea in developing countries
  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2009)
• When do vertical (stand-alone) programmes have a place in health systems?
  WHO Regional Office for Europe and European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2008)
• White Paper on Preterm Birth: The Global and Regional Toll
  March of Dimes (2009)
• WHO European Ministerial Conference on Health Systems: Health Systems, Health and Wealth
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2008)
• WHO Guidelines for the management of postpartum haemorrhage and retained placenta
  WHO (2009)
• WHO guidelines for the management of postpartum haemorrhage and retained placenta
  World Health Organization (2009)
• WHO Report 2008 - Global tuberculosis control: surveillance, planning, financing
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Wireless technology for social change: Trends in NGO mobile use
  United Nations Foundation (2009)
• Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Working together for better health
  UK Department of International Development (2007)
• World abortion policies
  United Nations, Population Division (2007)
• World Health Report 2006: Working together for Health
  WHO (2006)
• World Health Report calls for return to primary health care approach
  World Health Organization (2008)
• World Health Statistics 2009
  WHO (2009)
• World Health Statistics 2010
  World Health Organization (2010)
• World malaria report 2008
  World Health Organization (2008)
• World report on child injury prevention
  WHO/UNICEF (2008)
• Your money or your life
  OXFAM International (2009)