
- UCAS course code
- VL38
- UCAS institution code
- M20
BSc International Disaster Management & Humanitarian Response / Course details
Year of entry: 2021
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Course unit details:
War, Migration and Health
Unit code | HCRI30032 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 3 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Offered by | Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute |
Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
This is course provides a critical overview of over-arching themes and agendas in war, migration and health. This includes building understanding of how war and migration affect population and critical assessment of how health systems in Europe respond to population movements. In doing so the course aims to highlight issues of how health is conceptualised in theory and practice, the power relations and inequalities involved within and between key health populations, actors and institutions, and the key health challenges before and after war. We also explore the role of international organisations in providing humanitarian health
Aims
This course aims to understand the challenges that war and displacement bring to health, both physical and mental.
To understand the role of culture in relation to help-seeking
To understand the global architecture of Humanitarian Health
To Understand War Trauma and its medicalization.
Knowledge and understanding
- understand how health is conceptualised
- recognise the role of power and power inequalities in health systems
- understand key issues affecting migrant health
- understand how migrant health is gendered
- understand and critically evaluate the links between research/ideology and policy, and policy and practice
Intellectual skills
- critically assess the role of health systems in responding to population movements
- exercise a reflexive and critical evaluation of health as a human experience mediated by individual, societal, cultural and global contexts
- use their knowledge of health system responses to migration to engage in critical reflection on health issues and the impact of health systems on migrant communities
Practical skills
- plan, research, organise and deliver workshop presentations related to specific health contexts
- develop oral and written presentation skills
- write policy briefs
- course unit, in relation to the students' transferable skills and personal qualities.
Assessment methods
Workshop on Refugees and Health in British Cities (paired presentations). | 30% |
Essay Plan | 0% |
Essay | 70% |
Feedback methods
Feedback method | Formative or Summative |
Written feedback on essay plans and final essay | Summative Essays + Formative essays |
Verbal feedback in assessed presentations and formatively in seminars and workshop discussions Additional one-to-one feedback (during the consultation hour or by making an appointment)
| Summative Workshops |
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Lectures | 22 |
Seminars | 11 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 167 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Rubina Jasani | Unit coordinator |