HLTH 305: The Logic and Politics of Global Health (HC) Fall 2018

For the purposes of this course, primary sources may include: 

Technical reports (including qualitative and quantitative data)

NGO publications (including websites)

Government documents (contemporary or historical)

Health education materials

...and more!                     

CDC Global Health Promotion, Liberia 2014

Primary sources are firsthand accounts of events or conditions during a particular period, often recorded contemporaneously by participants or observers.

Written documents:

• Diaries and journals
• Blogs
• Letters (correspondence)
• Speeches and sermons
• Manuscripts
• Notes (and other written materials describing experienced or observed events)
• Autobiographies and memoirs describing experienced or observed events (in hindsight)
• Newspaper articles
• Maps
  
  

Multimedia sources:

• Photographs, films, videos
• News broadcasts and transcripts
• Audio recordings documenting contemporary events
• Music, television shows, advertisements
  
  

Physical artifacts:

• Art objects
• Costumes
• Buildings, monuments, etc.
• Public opinion polls, television shows, movies, music, best-sellers, advertisements - anything that provides a cultural, psychological, or sociological snapshot of a certain time period