• Paper number 3 will summarize, for a country of your choice, the burden of either a particular infectious disease OR a group of the most important infectious diseases OR a particular non- communicable disease OR group of non-communicable diseases: the people most affected by this disease or diseases, key risk factors, the economic and social costs of the disease(s), and what might be done to address the disease(s) in cost-effective ways.

Each paper should be four pages long, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font. The paper cannot be longer than four pages or it will not be graded. Students must utilize APA format for all submissions.

The paper should be written in a very clear and very crisp manner, with short sentences, short paragraphs, and as few words as possible.

Each paper needs to be written in a manner that will allow the aide of the Minister of Finance to go over the contents of the brief with the Minister of Finance in about 3 minutes in a car on the way to some meeting, since that is what often really happens.

Each paper should be written about a different country in a different region of the world. The papers should be written on low- or middle-income countries, since they are the focus of the course. This will allow you to use the papers to explore selected health and development issues in a variety of settings in a manner deeper than you will be able to do only in the classroom.

The paper should answer the following questions:

• What is the nature and magnitude of the problem?
• Who is affected by it?
• What are the determinants of and risk factors for the problem?
• What are the health, economic, and social consequences of the problem?
• What few priority steps do you recommend be taken to address the problem, at least cost, in doable, sustainable, and fair ways and what is your rationale for these recommendations?
• Each paper must begin with this “one paragraph tells all” summary, formatted like an abstract.