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Module code: POPP 5025
Module description
The overall aim of the module is to enable students to develop a critical understanding of global health issues, politics, strategies and policies. Its specific aims are to:
- Indentify the key global health issues of today (for example communicable and non-communicable diseases) and analyse the major threats to health (including, bioterrorism, climate change, poverty and inequality, neo-liberalism and corporate power)
- Explore what can and should be done to improve health and wellbeing, prevent disease, and promote 'healthy development'
- Analyse the role of international organisations (including international agencies, NGOs and transnational corporations) and processes (such as partnerships, inter-agency relationships and programmes)
- Evaluate the key global and regional strategies for health
- Investigate the health problems of particular regions of the world and how they are being/could be addressed (eg: Africa, Europe, Latin America)
- From a global perspective, explore the design of healthcare systems and strategies for reform
Contact hours per student per year
The contact hours for this module is 33 hours (11 x 3 hours) of teaching sessions which include lectures, seminars and workshops
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