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	Topics
	Week 1:	The Household Production of Health: An Overview of Issues I A. Definitions of the household; the household as a site of cooperation and competition; the household production of health B. Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Health-- Gender and child survival Differential care of children
	Week 2:	The Household Production of Health: An Overview of Issues II A. Selective Child Survival or Selective Neglect B. Women, Work, Autonomy and Child Survival C: Maternal Education: Does It Make a Difference to the Household Production of Health? How? In What Circumstances
	Week 3:	Women's Health and Safe Motherhood, Maternal Mortality, Abortion A: Women' Health: Reproductive Health and Beyond B: Women's Health and Local Culture C: Maternal Mortaltiy and Morbitity: Safe Motherhood D: Abortion and Sex Selection E: Special Supplemental Section: Midwives and Women's Reproductive Health
	Week 4	Family Planning A. Culture and Population Policy: an overview B. Family Planning: Cultural Dimensions C. Gender Roles and Decision-Making D. Critical assessment of Family Planning Methods and Policy Discourse E: Special Supplemental Section: Case Studies: Bangladesh F. Special Supplemental Section: Fertility
	Week 5	Reproductive Infections and Sexually Transmitted diseases A. Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI) B. Sexually Transmitted Disease (STDs) C. Cervical Cancer D. Infertility
	Week 6	AIDS (part I) A. Culture, Sexuality and HIV Transmission and Discourse B. Verticle Transmission; Politics of Anti-Retroviral Drugs; and Quarantine C. Case Studies: Part One: Continued in Week 7
	Week 7	AIDS (part II) A. Case Studies: Thailand B. Case Studies: Africa
	Week 8	Health Care Seeking Process A. Health Care Seeking Process: Health Care Utilization, Clinic by-passing, Referral B. Household Health Expenditure, Health Care Demand C. Quality of Care D. Community Financing, User Fees, Bamako Initiative
	Weeks 9 & 10	A. Pharmaceutical Practice: An Overview B. Case Studies (Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, Africa; Self Medication, Chemist Shop) C. Public Health Concerns: Antibiotic Misuse/Resistance, ORS Prescription etc. D. Policy Issues Related to Pharmaceutical Patents, Distribution and Research (Pricing; Research and Development; Global Responsibility; Availability, Distribution and Pricing of Anti-Retrovial Drugs; revisited (TRIPS))
	Saturday workshop	Grant writing
	Week 11	Tobacco and International Health A. The Worldwide Smoking, Tobacco Use Epidemic - How serious is it? B. Tobacco Fact Sheet: A Crash Course in Tobacco Control C. Anthropologists study Tobacco Use and Tobacco Promotion D. Political Economy and U.S. Policy on Tobacco Exports. E. Trouble Brewing: Changing Patterns of Alcohol Use in the Third World.
	Week 12	Health Transitions and Mental Health A. Health Transitions and Aging: New Health Care Challenges B. Health Transitions and Chronic Illness: (Nutrition Transitions; Cardiovascular Disease) C. Mental Health: The Need for a Cultural Assessment
	Week 13	A. Behavior and Health Education: An Overview B. Different Approaches to Health Communication: What is the Role of Anthropology? C. Social Marketing: A Critical Assessment D. Behavior Change Models: Stages of Change and Self/Collective Efficacy Models
	Week 14	A. Health Bureaucracy - Studying up B. Globalization, Structural Adjustments and Health.