Research Guides: GWSPH 3115 Global Health and Human Rights: Resources &amp; Writing

Key Texts

Required Books

Health and Human Rights in a Changing World by Michael Grodin (Editor); Daniel Tarantola (Editor); George Annas (Editor); Sofia Gruskin (Editor)
Call Number: RA394 .H385 2013
ISBN: 1136688560
Publication Date: 2013-07-04
The Hidden Face of Rights by Kathryn Sikkink
ISBN: 9780300233292
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
The Human Right to Health by Jonathan Wolff
ISBN: 9780393343380
Publication Date: 2013-02-11
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Additional Titles

Pathologies of Power by M.D., Paul Farmer
ISBN: 0520931475
Publication Date: 2004-10-23
Perspectives on Health and Human Rights by Sofia Gruskin (Editor); George J. Annas (Editor); Michael A. Grodin (Editor); Stephen P. Marks (Editor)
Call Number: RA427.25 .P47 2005
ISBN: 041594807X
Publication Date: 2005-04-16
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century by Kathryn Sikkink
ISBN: 9781400888535
Publication Date: 2017-09-08
An Introduction to Global Health Delivery by Joia Mukherjee; Paul Farmer (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780197607251
Publication Date: 2021-10-22
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age by Jacqueline Bhabha
ISBN: 1400850169
Publication Date: 2014-05-04
The Politics of Protection by Elizabeth G. Ferris
ISBN: 9780815721376
Publication Date: 2011-03-30
Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
ISBN: 0195398653
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)
ISBN: 1419729489
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Global Health Law by Lawrence O. Gostin
ISBN: 9780674369870
Publication Date: 2014-03-10

Scopus
Interdisciplinary citation and abstract database covering more than 14,200 peer-reviewed journals, tracking cited and citing literature.
Advantages: peer-reviewed journal articles across academic disciplines with links to 'citing' and 'cited by' documents.
PubMed
Health sciences articles including clinical, basic sciences, and public health information. Interface incorporates Himmelfarb Library's customized search filters for Clinical Reviews/EBM, Clinical Trials, and Reviews. Coverage: 1950 - Present including corrections and daily updates. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Advantages: core health sciences research tool with filters to focus on specific article types.

How to / Guides

How to write a health policy brief
Wong SL, Green LA, Bazemore AW, Miller BF. How to write a health policy brief. Fam Syst Health. 2017 Mar;35(1):21-24. doi: 10.1037/fsh0000238. Epub 2016 Dec 1. PMID: 27935727.
Developing a Policy Brief
Keepnews DM. Developing a Policy Brief. Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2016 May;17(2):61-5. doi: 10.1177/1527154416660670. Epub 2016 Jul 22. PMID: 27450972.
Be it resolved: writing resolutions to influence health policy
Wallace PM, Watkins DC, Dixon-Terry E. Be it resolved: writing resolutions to influence health policy. Health Promot Pract. 2010 Jan;11(1):9-12. doi: 10.1177/1524839909353024. PMID: 20038647.

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