The following suggested reference articles are organized with this structure:
- General Global Health concepts, issues, or topics
- KP Global Health program site specific literature, marked by relevance to specialty
These references are not a comprehensive list of Global Health literature, but rather, are intended as an overview and starting point into an academic and practical understanding of Global Health.
General (Core) Global Health Resources
Global Health Care Workforce
| Migration of Healthcare Workers from Developing Countries: Strategic Approaches to its Management. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2004; 82: 595-600 |
| Working Together for Health –The World Health Report 2006. World Health Organization. See also, World Health Report 2006 Key Points |
| Confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment: MSF experience in southern Africa. Medecins Sans Frontiers 2007 |
| To Stay and Deliver, Good practice for humanitarians in complex security environments. Office for the Coordination of Humaniatrian Affairs, Policy Department and Studies Branch 2011 |
Site Specific References – Kenya
| Kenya: Non-Governmental Health Care Provision – Data for Decision Making Project Harvard School of Public Health. African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF), 1995 |
| National Guidelines For Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Malaria. Kenya Ministry of Health 2006 |
| Basic Paediatric Protocols – Kenya Ministry of Health |
| Effects of revised diagnostic recommendations on malaria treatment practices across age groups in Kenya – Tropical Medicine and International Health 2008. 13(6), 784–787. |
Site Specific References – Africa
| Global burden of blood-pressure-related disease, 2001 – Lancet 2008; 371: 1513–18 |
| Assessment of the Role of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Malaria in Infants: Letter Report. Committee on the Perspectives on the Role of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Malaria in Infants 2008 |
| What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival. Lancet 2008; 371: 417–40 |
| Diarrhoea case management in low- and middle-income countries — an unfinished agenda. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2007; 85: 42-48. |
| Progress Toward Measles Control — African Region, 2001–2008. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(MMWR) 2009; 58(37);1036-1041 |
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