Google Classroom

We will use Google Classroom as LMS for our Minor Global Health 2019. All information like Roster, Lecture Sheets, Reader, Essential Global Health content and information on the Minor Global Health Masterclasses can be accessed through the Minor Global Health 2019 Classroom.

Please note that all 'Assignments' will be posted on the Classroom stream. To turn in your assignments, you need to use Minor Global Health 2019 Classroom as well.

Minor Global Health 2019 website

Furthermore, you can also find this content through this website (after login!):

• Reader
• Lecture Sheets
• Masterclasses
• E-learning modules
• Essential Global Health content
• Assignments
• Social Reports
• Roster
• Test Exam

Global Health 101

As compulsory reading we will use Global Health 101 3rd edition by Richard Skolnik. Check out the Global Health 101 website!

In use in over 300 college classrooms across the country, Global Health 101, Third Edition is a clear, concise, and user-friendly introduction to the most critical issues in Global Health. It illustrates key themes with an extensive set of case studies, examples, and the latest evidence. Particular attention is given to the health-development link, to low- and middle-income countries, and to the health needs of poor and disadvantaged people.

Factfulness

When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

Factfulness offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. It reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective―from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think.That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is a new thinking habit that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to challanges and opportunities of the future.

“One of the most important books I’ve ever read―an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates

“A genuine antidote to negativity and hopelessness…” – Nature

De Derde Wereld op je CV

Waterputten slaan, scholen bouwen, zieken verzorgen: jaarlijks stappen vele vrijwilligers en studenten op het vliegtuig om in Afrika, Azië of Zuid-Amerika de handen uit de mouwen te steken en werkervaring op te doen. Fantastisch, of toch niet?

Op basis van eigen ervaringen en onderzoek laat Judith van de Kamp de andere kant zien van werken in een ontwikkelingsland. Is die goedbedoelde hulp wel nuttig? Doe je het voor de ander of voor jezelf, en kan dat ook samengaan? Onverbloemd geeft Judith van de Kamp haar kijk op de zin en onzin van kortstondig werk door westerlingen. Ze laat het werkelijke leven in een ontwikkelingsland zien en geeft vele nuttige tips.

De derde wereld op je cv is een praktische en kritische gids om van je verblijf een echt onvergetelijke ervaring te maken.

Medical Spanish Dictionary

(Compulsory for students going to Colombia, Cuba and Ecuador)

• 2nd edition, completely updated
• Bilingual dictionary containing accurate translations of numerous health-related terms
• Handy reference for communicating with Spanish-speaking patients
• Includes medical terminology specific to Mexico,Puerto Rico, Cuba and other Spanish-speaking countries
• For all healthcare professionals

"Great medical bilingual dictionary. It includes the necessary medical terminology as well as many common words and verbs which might be helpful in explaining treatment, or foods to avoid for example."

Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Global Health

In a foreword to the book, Bill Gates says, “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”

Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health chronicles the global health revolution from the ground up, showcasing twenty-two local, national, and regional health programs that have been part of this global change. The book profiles eighteen remarkable cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in low- and middle-income countries succeeded, and four examples of promising interventions that fell short of their health targets when scaled-up in real world conditions. Each case demonstrates how much effort—and sometimes luck—is required to fight illness and sustain good health.

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

It’s on the televisions, in the papers and in our minds. Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is – financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.

Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define our species. While it's true that not every problem has been solved, we do now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will take to see this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting and counter-intuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world.

Foreign to Familiar

To prepare for the 'culture shock' when going abroad we very much advise you to read the book 'Foreign to Familiar' by Sarah Lanier.

Foreign to Familiar is a splendidly written, well researched work on cultures. Anyone travelling abroad should not leave home without this valuable resource! Sarah's love and sensitivity for people of all nations will touch your heart. This book creates within us a greater appreciation for our extended families around the world and an increased desire to better understand them.

The Practice of Internal Medicine in the Tropics

Tropical Medicine has changed over time from colonial medicine with focus mainly on exotic, parasitic diseases transmitted by a vector, into a broad specialty including infectious diseases, HIV medicine, emerging infections, travel medicine, neglected tropical diseases and non-communicable diseases. While in each region the pathology encountered may differ, one common characteristic is that in most areas resources are limited. This book aims to fill a gap by discussing cases, most of which may be encountered every day, that are managed using a thorough clinical assessment. This is done against the background of sound knowledge of the local epidemiology while at the same time making responsible use of the often limited support services. While the cases were collected in Malawi, the principles discussed may well apply elsewhere and provide guidance for students and doctors in other tropical areas. Tropical Medicine is nowadays best understood as the practice of internal medicine in a tropical environment.