Answer - Muppyのお勉強箱

A. General
[1. Public Health vs Medicine]

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[2. Resource Allocation: Vertical vs Horizontal]

• Vertical
  • Adv
    • Focused
    • Easier to raise funds (if disease sexy)
    • Monitor, evaluate
    • Quicker returns
    • May also strengthen existing systems
  • Disadv
    • internal brain drain of vertical programs
    • Distortions & disruptions (of country priorities)
    • Duplications, parallel inefficiencies
    • Fragmentation of system
    • What happens when money dries up?
• Horizontal
  • Adv
    • tackle many issues at same time
    • root causes
    • longer term benefits (sustainable, capacity building)
    • may be more efficient
  • Disadv
    • difficult to see effect and monitor results
    • corruption, leakage
    • effort may become unfocused & unmanageable

• fictitious dichotomy….most programs incorporate both. Depends on capacity of government. Absorptive capacity.

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[3. Family Planning Politics]
[4. MDGs]
[5. Africa/Development/Money]
[6. AIDS]

B. Economics
[1. Development]
[2. Inequality]
[3. Definition of Development]
[4. Market Failure]

C. Demography
[1. Demographic Transition]
[2. Population Growth]
[3. Historical Decline in Mortality]
[4. Fertility/Family Planning]
[5. African Fertility Decline]
[6. Below-Replacement Level and Aging (Immigration/Social Security)]
[7. Population Data]

D. Measuring Population Health/Health Risk Factor
[0. DALY/QALY]
[1. Population Health: Rose(1985)]
[2. Determinants of Health]
[3. Epidemiologic Transition]
[4. Risk Factor Analysis]

E. Politics
[1. Political Analysis]
[2. Health System]

F. Ethics
[1. Inequality/Inequity]
[2. Maximization vs Fair Distribution]
[3. Individual vs Social Responsibility]
[4. Priority on Health Worker]