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Course unit details:
Global Women's Public Health
Unit code | POPH62411 |
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Credit rating | 15 |
Unit level | FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This unit will be of interest to students from all over the world. It has implications for health professionals, policy makers and researchers. A number of health and clinical topics will be introduced each week. Students do not need to be health professionals to take this unit, and links will be provided to give clinical information for those students who are interested.
In 2015 Dr Flavia Bustreo the WHO Assistant Director General for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health stated that In 2015, “in too many countries, women’s empowerment remains a pipedream - little more than a rhetorical flourish added to a politician’s speech. Too many women are still missing out on the opportunity to get educated, support themselves, and obtain the health services they need, when they need them.” This unit is going to look critically at the 10 most pressing issues that Bustreo highlighted. Taking a public health perspective we will also examine the burden of the problems and critically appraise the quality of data that is available to support decision making on women’s health. We will explore how social determinants of health, for example poverty, education, working and living conditions impact on a women’s life and health throughout her life course. Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals is to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’ and we will look throughout the life course at the impact of discrimination (UN 2015). This is an interactive online course. Students must work through the online course material. Students are encouraged to use the Blackboard discussion boards to ask questions and check their understanding of the course material.
Aims
To understand the burden of women’s global health and the factors affecting it.
Syllabus
- Being Young
- Reproductive health and sexually transmitted infections
- Maternal health
- Family courts, systems abuse and health
- Violence against women and girls
- Mental health
- Non communicable diseases
- HIV
- Cancer
- Older Adulthood
Teaching and learning methods
The majority of the course material to be covered is provided through the written course unit, links to journal articles, web sites and digital book chapters. Some weeks the students will work on an exercise individually or in a group towards discussion boards (not graded), which will inform their final assignment (graded at 100%). This unit will encourage students to share their experiences and use examples from their own practice or area of interest.
Knowledge and understanding
- To understand the role gender equality and women’s empowerment in global women’s health.
Intellectual skills
- To assess the changing burden of women's global health in a global context.
Practical skills
- To apply an understanding of environmental social and economic determinants of health to women's global health issues.
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- To critically appraise the level of evidence available to support decision making in women's global health.
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- At Masters level we expect students to be able to apply what they know to other contexts, often their own. In this unit students will have the opportunity of doing this in their final assignment.
- Group/team working
- Team working is important for all health professionals and especially Public Health specialists. This unit requires students to work together in small groups to curate two discussion boards during the unit.
Assessment methods
Method | Weight |
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Written assignment (inc essay) | 100% |
Feedback methods
Students will be provided with personalised written feedback within 20 working days for their final summative assignment (2,500-3,000 words or equivalent).
There will be a specific webinar to prepare students for the final assignment.
Recommended reading
Women’s health priorities and interventions (2015)
http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4147
Women and Health: the key for sustainable development (2015)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673615604974
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Seminars | 10 |
Tutorials | 4 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 136 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Elizabeth Dalgarno | Unit coordinator |
Additional notes
FBMH faculty marking criteria will be used to grade final assignments. but students will be given guidance beforehand.
There will be a specific webinar to prepare students for the final assignment.
For further information please watch this video from our Course Unit Leader.
If you have any questions about the content of this unit, please contact the course unit leader, Elizabeth Dalgarno, via email at elizabeth.dalgarno@manchester.ac.uk. If you have any other queries, please contact the PGT programme administrators via email at shs.programmes@manchester.ac.uk.