Week 1（9/17）Introduction
Week 2（9/24）Happy Moon Festival!
Week 3（10/1）Measurement of health
Braveman, P. (2006). Health disparities and health equity: concepts and measurement. Annu. Rev. Public Health, 27, 167-194..
Mathers, C. D., Ma Fat, D., Inoue, M., Rao, C., & Lopez, A. D. (2005). Counting the dead and what they died from: an assessment of the global status of cause of death data. Bulletin of the world health organization, 83(3), 171-177c.
Moynihan, R., & Smith, R. (2002). Health: perception versus observation. BMJ,324, 860-1.
Salomon, J. A., Mathers, C. D., Chatterji, S., Sadana, R., Ustun, T. B., & Murray, C. J. (2003). Quantifying individual levels of health: definitions, and measurement issues. Health systems performance assessment: debates, methods and empiricism. Geneva: World Health Organization, 301-18.concepts
Week 4（10/8）Nutrition and health
The Black, R. E., Allen, L. H., Bhutta, Z. A., Caulfield, L. E., De Onis, M., Ezzati, M., ... & Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. (2008). Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences. Lancet, 371(9608), 243-260.
Hannum, E., Liu, J., & Frongillo, E. A. (2014). Poverty, food insecurity and nutritional deprivation in rural China: Implications for children's literacy achievement. International journal of educational development, 34, 90-97.
Hawkes, C. (2006). Uneven dietary development: linking the policies and processes of globalization with the nutrition transition, obesity and diet-related chronic diseases. Globalization and health, 2(1), 1.
Popkin, B. M., Adair, L. S., & Ng, S. W. (2012). Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in developing countries. Nutrition reviews, 70(1), 3-21.
The Victora, C. G., Adair, L., Fall, C., Hallal, P. C., Martorell, R., Richter, L., ... & Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group. (2008). Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital. lancet,371(9609), 340-357.
Optional
Hawkes, C. (2005). The role of foreign direct investment in the nutrition transition. Public health nutrition, 8(04), 357-365.
Popkin, B. M. (2002). The shift in stages of the nutrition transition in the developing world differs from past experiences!. Public health nutrition, 5(1A), 205-214.
Week 5（10/15）Population health and social epidemiology
Easterlin, R. A. (1999). How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality. European Review of Economic History, 3(03), 257-294. d Demography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 101-138
Horiuchi, S. (1999). Epidemiological transitions in human history. Health and mortality: Issues of global concern, 54-71.
McKeown, T., & Record, R. G. (1962). Reasons for the decline of mortality in England and Wales during the nineteenth century. Population studies, 16(2), 94-122.
Preston, S. H. (1975). The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population studies, 29(2), 231-248.
Szreter, S. (2002). Rethinking McKeown: the relationship between public health and social change. American Journal of Public Health, 92(5), 722-725.
Vaupel, J. W. (2010). Biodemography of human ageing. Nature, 464(7288), 536-542.
Student presentation
Bongaarts, J., Büttner, T., Heilig, G., & Pelletier, F. (2008). Has the HIV epidemic peaked?. Population and Development Review, 34(2), 199-224.
(4), 659-68191, The Review of Economics and StatisticsDeschenes, O., & Moretti, E. (2009). Extreme weather events, mortality, and migration. ..
Week 6（10/22）Sexual and reproductive health
Kassebaum, N. J., Bertozzi-Villa, A., Coggeshall, M. S., Shackelford, K. A., Steiner, C., Heuton, K. R., ... & Templin, T. (2014). Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet, 384(9947), 980-1004.
The Bearinger, L. H., Sieving, R. E., Ferguson, J., & Sharma, V. (2007). Global perspectives on the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents: patterns, prevention, and potential. lancet, 369 (9568), 1220-1231.
Bongaarts, J., & Guilmoto, C. Z. (2015). How many more missing women? Excess female mortality and prenatal sex selection, 1970–2050. Population and Development Review, 41(2), 241-269.
Singh, S., Darroch, J. E., & Ashford, L. S. (2014). Adding it up: The costs and benefits of investing in sexual and reproductive health 2014.
Sen A. (1990). More than 100 million women are missing. N York Rev Books 20:61-6.
Student presentation
Chen, Y., Li, H., & Meng, L. (2013). Prenatal sex selection and missing girls in China: Evidence from the diffusion of diagnostic ultrasound. Journal of Human Resources, 48(1), 36-70.
Pallitto, C. C., García-Moreno, C., Jansen, H. A., Heise, L., Ellsberg, M., & Watts, C. (2013). Intimate partner violence, abortion, and unintended pregnancy: results from the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 120(1), 3-9.
Week 7（10/29）Socioeconomic status and health disparities
Health Adler, N. E., & Newman, K. (2002). Socioeconomic disparities in health: pathways and policies. Affairs, 21(2), 60-76.
Bauer, G. R. (2014). Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity. Social Science & Medicine, 110, 10-17.
Link, B. G., & Phelan, J. (1995). Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. Journal of health and social behavior, 80-94.
Lynch, J. W., Smith, G. D., Kaplan, G. A., & House, J. S. (2000). Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions. British Medical Journal, 320(7243), 1200.
Marmot, M. (2004). Status syndrome. Significance, 1(4), 150-154.
Optional
Sapolsky, Robert M. 2005. “The Influence of Social Hierarchy on Primate Health.” Science 308:648–652.
Smith, J. P. (1999). Healthy bodies and thick wallets: the dual relation between health and economic status. The journal of economic perspectives: a journal of the American Economic Association, 13(2), 144.
Student presentation
Glied, S., & Lleras-Muney, A. (2008). Technological innovation and inequality in health. Demography, 45(3), 741-761.
Link, B. G., Carpiano, R. M., & Weden, M. M. (2013). Can honorific awards give us clues about the connection between socioeconomic status and mortality?.
American Sociological Review, 0003122413477419.
Week 8（11/5）Sex differences in health
Case, A., & Paxson, C. (2005). Sex differences in morbidity and mortality. Demography, 42(2), 189-214.
Drevenstedt, G. L., Crimmins, E. M., Vasunilashorn, S., & Finch, C. E. (2008). The rise and fall of excess male infant mortality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(13), 5016-5021.
McKinlay, J. B. (1996). Some contributions from the social system to gender inequalities in heart disease. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1-26.
Phelan, J. C., Lucas, J. W., Ridgeway, C. L., & Taylor, C. J. (2014). Stigma, status, and population health. Social Science & Medicine, 103, 15-23.
Rieker, P. P., & Bird, C. E. (2005). Rethinking gender differences in health: why we need to integrate social and biological perspectives. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 60(Special Issue 2), S40-S47.
Optional
Trovato, F., & Heyen, N. B. (2006). A varied pattern of change of the sex differential in survival in the G7 countries. Journal of biosocial science, 38(03), 391-401.
Journal of Wells, J. C. (2000). Natural selection and sex differences in morbidity and mortality in early life. theoretical Biology, 202(1), 65-76.
Student presentation
Schnittker, J. (2007). Working more and feeling better: women's health, employment, and family life, 1974-2004. American Sociological Review, 72(2), 221-238.
Stevenson, B., & Wolfers, J. (2009). The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(2), 190-225.
Week 9（11/12）Migration and health
Abraído-Lanza, A. F., Armbrister, A. N., Flórez, K. R., & Aguirre, A. N. (2006). Toward a theory-driven model of acculturation in public health research. American journal of public health, 96(8), 1342-1346.
Palloni, A., & Arias, E. (2004). Paradox lost: explaining the Hispanic adult mortality advantage. Demography, 41(3), 385-415.
Yip, W., Subramanian, S. V., Mitchell, A. D., Lee, D. T., Wang, J., & Kawachi, I. (2007). Does social capital enhance health and well-being? Evidence from rural China. Social science & medicine, 64(1), 35-49.
Zimmerman, C., Kiss, L., & Hossain, M. (2011). Migration and health: a framework for 21st century policy-making. PLoS Med, 8(5), e1001034.
Optional
Hummer, R. A., Powers, D. A., Pullum, S. G., Gossman, G. L., & Frisbie, W. P. (2007). Paradox found (again): infant mortality among the Mexican-origin population in the United States. Demography, 44(3), 441-457.
Student presentation
Chen, J. (2011). Internal migration and health: Re-examining the healthy migrant phenomenon in China. Social Science & Medicine, 72(8), 1294-1301.
Riosmena, F., Wong, R., & Palloni, A. (2013). Migration selection, protection, and acculturation in health: a binational perspective on older adults. Demography, 50(3), 1039-1064.
Week 10（11/19）Racial differences in health Proposal due
Balsa, A. I., & McGuire, T. G. (2003). Prejudice, clinical uncertainty and stereotyping as sources of health disparities. Journal of health economics,22(1), 89-116.
Hayward, M. D., Miles, T. P., Crimmins, E. M., & Yang, Y. (2000). The significance of socioeconomic status in explaining the racial gap in chronic health conditions. American sociological review, 910-930.
Hebert, P. L., Sisk, J. E., & Howell, E. A. (2008). When does a difference become a disparity? Conceptualizing racial and ethnic disparities in health. Health Affairs, 27(2), 374-382.
Schnittker, J. and J.D. McLeod (2005). The Social Psychology of Health Disparities. Annual Review of Sociology 31, 75-103
Williams, D.R., H.W. Neighbors, and J.S. Jackson (2003). Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Health: Findings from Community Studies. American Journal of Public Health 93, 200-208
Student presentation:
Lauderdale, D. S. (2006). Birth outcomes for Arabic-named women in California before and after September 11. Demography, 43(1), 185-201.
Smedley, B. D., Stith, A. Y., & Nelson, A. R. (Eds.). (2002). Summary. Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care (full printed version). National Academies Press. (http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10260)
Week 11（11/26）Final project proposal presentation and discussion
Week 12（12/3）Social relationships and health
Berkman, L. F., & Glass, T. (2000). Social integration, social networks, social support, and health. Social epidemiology, 1, 137-173.
Christakis, N. A., & Fowler, J. H. (2007). The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years. New England journal of medicine, 357(4), 370-379.
Lillard, L. A., & Waite, L. J. (1995). 'Til death do us part: Marital disruption and mortality. American Journal of Sociology, 1131-1156.
Lim, C., & Putnam, R. D. (2010). Religion, social networks, and life satisfaction. American Sociological Review, 75(6), 914-933.
Thoits, P. A. (2011). Mechanisms linking social ties and support to physical and mental health. Journal of health and social behavior, 52(2), 145-161.
Optional
Umberson, D., Crosnoe, R., & Reczek, C. (2010). Social relationships and health behavior across life course. Annual review of sociology, 36, 139.
Student presentation
Cacioppo, J. T., Fowler, J. H., & Christakis, N. A. (2009). Alone in the crowd: the structure and spread of loneliness in a large social network. Journal of personality and social psychology, 97(6), 977.
Margolis, R., & Myrskylä, M. (2011). A global perspective on happiness and fertility. Population and Development Review, 37(1), 29-56.
Week 13（12/10）Community and health
Culhane, J. F., & Elo, I. T. (2005). Neighborhood context and reproductive health. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 192(5), S22-S29.
Diez Roux, A. V., & Mair, C. (2010). Neighborhoods and health. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1186(1), 125-145.
Entwisle, B. (2007). Putting people into place. Demography, 44(4), 687-703.
Leventhal, T., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2003). Moving to opportunity: an experimental study of neighborhood effects on mental health. American Journal of Public Health, 93(9), 1576-1582.
Montgomery, M. R., & Hewett, P. C. (2005). Urban poverty and health in developing countries: household and neighborhood effects. Demography, 42(3), 397-425.
Optional
Oakes, J. M. (2004). The (mis) estimation of neighborhood effects: causal inference for a practicable social epidemiology. Social science & medicine,58(10), 1929-1952.
Student presentation
Colchero, M. A., & Bishai, D. (2008). Effect of neighborhood exposures on changes in weight among women in Cebu, Philippines (1983–2002). American journal of epidemiology, 167(5), 615-623.
Kravdal, Ø. (2004). Child mortality in India: the community-level effect of education. Population studies, 58(2), 177-192.
Nolan, L. B. (2015). Slum definitions in urban India: implications for the measurement of health inequalities. Population and development review, 41(1), 59-84.
Week 14（12/17）Life course perspectives on health
Almond, D., & Mazumder, B. A. (2011). Health capital and the prenatal environment: the effect of Ramadan observance during pregnancy. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(4), 56-85.
Eriksson, J. G. (2005). The fetal origins hypothesis—10 years on. BMJ,330(7500), 1096-1097.
Lynch, J., & Smith, G. D. (2005). A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology. Annu. Rev. Public Health, 26, 1-35.
Finch, C. E., & Crimmins, E. M. (2004). Inflammatory exposure and historical changes in human life-spans. Science, 305(5691), 1736-1739.
Optional
Dupre, M. E. (2007). Educational differences in age-related patterns of disease: reconsidering the cumulative disadvantage and age-as-leveler hypotheses. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 48(1), 1-15.
Student presentation
Chen, Y., & Zhou, L. A. (2007). The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959–1961 famine in China. Journal of health economics,26(4), 659-681.
Kumar, S., Molitor, R., & Vollmer, S. (2016). Drought and Early Child Health in Rural India. Population and Development Review, 42(1), 53-68.
Week 15（12/24）Mental health
Collins, P. Y., Patel, V., Joestl, S. S., March, D., Insel, T. R., Daar, A. S., ... & Glass, R. I. (2011). Grand challenges in global mental health. Nature,475(7354), 27-30.
Schnittker, J. (2013). Public beliefs about mental illness. In Handbook of the sociology of mental health (pp. 75-93). Springer Netherlands.
Nock, M. K., Borges, G., Bromet, E. J., Cha, C. B., Kessler, R. C., & Lee, S. (2008). Suicide and suicidal behavior. Epidemiologic reviews, 30(1), 133-154.
Whiteford, H. A., Degenhardt, L., Rehm, J., Baxter, A. J., Ferrari, A. J., Erskine, H. E., ... & Burstein, R. (2013). Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet, 382(9904), 1575-1586.
Student presentation
Hsieh, N. (2015). Economic Security, Social Cohesion, and Depression Disparities in Post-transition Societies A Comparison of Older Adults in China and Russia. Journal of health and social behavior, 56(4), 534-551.
Zhang, J., Wieczorek, W. F., Conwell, Y., & Tu, X. M. (2011). Psychological strains and youth suicide in rural China. Social science & medicine, 72(12), 2003-2010.
Week 16（12/31）No class
Week 17（1/5）Health policy and healthcare systems
Cutler, D. (2007). The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology. Journal of Health Economics 26:1081-1100.
Cutler, D. M. (2004). Behavioral health interventions: What works and why? In N. B. Anderson (Ed.), Critical perspectives on racial and ethnic differences in health in late life, pp. 643–674. Washington: National Academies Press
Mechanic, D (2007). “Population Health: Challenges for Science and Society.” Milbank Quarterly, 85: 533-559
Weinstein, Milton (2005). Spending Health Care Dollars Wisely: Can Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Help? Syracuse University Center for Policy Research Policy Brief, No. 30/2005. Syracuse, NY
Wu, T. Y., Majeed, A., & Kuo, K. N. (2010). An overview of the healthcare system in Taiwan. London journal of primary care, 3(2), 115-119.
Student presentation
Baicker, K., Taubman, S. L., Allen, H. L., Bernstein, M., Gruber, J. H., Newhouse, J. P., ... & Finkelstein, A. N. (2013). The Oregon experiment—effects of Medicaid on clinical outcomes. New England Journal of Medicine,368(18), 1713-1722.
Ho, J. Y., & Preston, S. H. (2010). US mortality in an international context: Age variations. Population and Development Review, 36(4), 749-773.
Week 18（1/12）Final project presentations
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