- UCAS course code
- VL38
- UCAS institution code
- M20
BSc International Disaster Management & Humanitarian Response
Year of entry: 2021
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Course unit details:
Introduction to Global Health
| Unit code | HCRI30021 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 20 |
| Unit level | Level 3 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
| Offered by | Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute |
| Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
The unit conceptualises current approaches in global health and the global health agenda and its importance to the medical profession. A total of 11 individual lectures cover issues such as the global burden of diseases, the determinants of health and health inequalities, the Sustainable Development Goals and important contemporary key topics in global health, for example, maternal, newborn and child health; water, sanitation, hygiene; the environment and vulnerable groups and emerging areas including disease outbreaks. Students will also have the opportunity to develop their knowledge of health systems organisation and governance, health systems strengthening, and the key actors in global health and reflect on the implication of this on population health. Lectures are complemented by a weekly seminar series to explore issues of global health in context, in the UK and globally, and increase awareness of specific health issues and challenges.
Aims
The unit aims to:
Provide a comprehensive understanding and critical review of global health to include the key debates and challenges both in the U.K. and globally and underpinning this, the key focus of global health on improving health and achieving health equity for all worldwide. It further aims to enhance students’ knowledge of contemporary global health issues, for example, maternal health, child health, water, sanitation and hygiene, environmental issues and non-communicable and communicable diseases and other key areas in global health and their associated challenges and governance.
Knowledge and understanding
• understand the socio-economic, cultural, political and environmental factors impacting on health and diseases
• develop critical understanding of the diversity and changing nature of the determinants of health and health inequalities
• recognise the role and impact of health systems organisation and governance on the health and well-being of populations
• to understand important contemporary global health topics
Intellectual skills
- critically analyse the concept of global health and its relation to clinical medical practice
- critically reflect on the implications of the social determinants of health and health inequalities
- critically reflect and evaluate the impact of global health systems and agendas on health status
- to understand the critical global health challenges, and the factors that have contributed to their emergence and key governance issues
Practical skills
- plan, research and execute individual and group work
- develop oral and written presentation skills
- to conduct research on contemporary policy topics
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- ability to plan and execute individual and group research
- develop oral and written communication skills
- critical evaluation skills: e.g. research,policy analysis and evaluation
- enhanced student awareness of global inequalities and their ethical implications
- enhanced understanding of contemporary global health topics and key challenges in global health
- increased awareness of students’ own values as an individual and global citizen
Employability skills
- Other
- - health profiling - working withunderstanding and critiquing data from a range of data sources e.g. quantitative and qualitative data - critical policy analysis - ability to plan and execute individual and group research - presentation skills
Assessment methods
Formative essay plan |
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1 x group presentation | 40% |
60% |
Feedback methods
Feedback method | Formative or Summative | |||||||||||||
Verbal feedback during lectures and seminars (students receive verbal and written feedback for the practice essay plan) | Formative | |||||||||||||
Written feedback on assessed presentations - using SALC feedback from | Summative | |||||||||||||
Written feedback on essays- using SALC feedback form | Summative | |||||||||||||
Written feedback on essay plan
Seye Abimbola (2018) On the meaning of global health and the role of global health journals, International Health, 10:63-65. Hani Kim, et al. (2019). A critical assessment of the ideological underpinnings of current practice in global health and their historical origins, Global Health Action, 12:1, 1651017 (13 pages). Paul Farmer (2013) “Reimagining Global Health - An Introduction”, University of California Press. Joia Mukherjee (2017) “An Introduction to Global Health Delivery¿: Practice, Equity, Human Rights”. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Michael Marmot, et al. (2020) Health equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On - Executive Summary
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