Paper number 2 will summarize, for a country of your choice, the key issues in women’s OR children’s health, who is most affected by them, key risk factors, the links between these issues with social and economic development, and what might be done to enhance the health of women and children in your country in cost-effective ways. 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? Write the summary and every topic sentence as if it is the only thing that the Minister of Finance is going to read. Your evidence-based story line should include who gets the disease, why they get it, why the reader should care, and how the problem can be addressed in the fastest and least cost manner. When you make your argument, give information about the relative cost effectiveness of your proposal with evidence. Each paper must begin with a “one paragraph tells all” summary, formatted like an abstract.