Reading list

Governing health equality: policy, interventions and evaluations

Strategiskt arbete för Jämlik hälsa: policy, interventioner och utvärdering

Course
MPH232
Second cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2025 (2025-09-01)
Decision date
2025-07-07

MPH232., Governing health equality: policy, interventions and
evaluations


Course Literature 
-Smith & Hanson (2011) Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An economic and policy perspective, Oxford Scholarship Online, selected chapters.
-Walley & Wright (2010) Public health: an action guide to improving health, Oxford Scholarship Online, selected chapters.
-Buse, K., Mays, N., Colombini M. (2023) "Making health policy" (online)
-Hyder et al (2010) Stakeholder analysis for health research: Case studies from low- and middle income countries, Public health, 124, Iss 3, March 2010; 159-166 (focus on pp. 159-162)
-Tulchinsky, TH. & Varavikova, EA (2015) The New Public Health (Elsevier online).
-Thorogood & Combes (2004) Evaluating health promotion: practice and methods, Oxford Scholarship Online
-Walley & Wright (2010) Public health: an action guide to improving health, Oxford Scholarship Online
-Brownson et al (2018) Evidence-based public health, Oxford Scholarship Online
-CDC Framework for program evaluation in public health
(https://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework/index.htm))
-Varvaszovsky & Brugha (2000) How to do (or not to do)… A stakeholder analysis, Health policy and planning; 15(3):338-345
-A conceptual framework for social determinant of health, Social Determinants of Health Discussion Paper 2
-Exworthy, M. (2008) Policy to tackle the social determinants of health: using conceptual models to understand the policy process. Health Policy and Planning 23:318-327
-Rütten & Gelius (2011) The interplay of structure and agency in health promotion: Integrating a concept of structural change and the policy dimension into a multi-level model and applying it
to health promotion principles and practice, Social Science & Medicine, 73:953-59
-Abel, T. & Frohlich, KL. (2012) Capitals and capabilities: Linking structure and agency to reduce health inequalities, Social Science & Medicine, 74:236-244