Module HEAS43410: GLOBAL HEALTH AND GOVERNANCE

Department: Health [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

HEAS43410: GLOBAL HEALTH AND GOVERNANCE

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To provide a detailed understanding of key concepts and issues in global health, health policies and politics, and how these might be governed and addressed.

Content

• The module has a wide remit variously considering various and important aspects of global health and factors that impinge upon global health inequalities. Relevant topics include Millennium Development Goals, changing disease types and prevalence, and transnational influences on health e.g. globalisation of manufacturing and economies, the impact of the financial crisis, immigration, the pharmaceutical industry, environmental factors, the role of various international health-related organizations, and international health governance. Case studies to illustrate will reflect current issues and recent research findings.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will have:
• An understanding of biological, cultural/cross-cultural, economic, environmental, pharmacological, and political aspects of global health issues
• An advanced understanding of the complex interrelationships between communities, global organisations, global industry, health systems, and governments in a global economy
• An advanced understanding of the mechanisms for global health governance

• Students will have gained:
• Ability to synthesise, critically evaluate and present complex arguments regarding health and health governance strategies including data, models and theoretical arguments

• Ability to engage critically with a range of literature.
• Ability to communicate succinctly and clearly in both oral and written format.
• Ability to compare, contrast and integrate different disciplinary perspectives on key contemporary issues.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Lecturing - Explains current theories - Examines and challenges existing polemics and research in the subject matter - Examines a series of case examples as illustrations.
• Tutorials and seminars - Allow students to work through concepts in more detail, providing both teacher and peer led input, promoting discussion and developing the interprofessional communication and working skills.
• Structured reading - Allows students to pursue topics in greater detail enabling both familiarity with key texts and a deeper understanding of the subject knowledge generally.
• Case studies - Will illustrate the concepts presented in lectures and discussed in tutorials and seminars.
• Independent study, research and analysis - Focuses student knowledge more deeply by exploring specific applications and pursuing aspects of the module that are of special interest to themselves.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

A 10% weighted summative essay summarising set literature and identifying key questions in the field plus a tutorial presentation on the subject matter of main assignment.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University