Module overview
This module provides a comprehensive overview of current issues and challenges in global health. Using relevant case studies, it will discuss trends and determinants of both communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as assessing possible effective responses to key transnational health challenges. As part of this process we will analyse the complex relationship between global health, poverty and human development within the framework of the post-2015 Sustainable Development health-related goals.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Appraise the complex relationship between health and other sectors within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Identify, use and critically evaluate a range of global health resources, including available datasets
- Discuss the emerging issues and critical challenges in transnational health and population development and how these are affected by underlying contextual factors such as globalisation, urbanisation and demographic, environmental and social change
- Evaluate multi-sectoral interventions and policy strategies to reduce the global disease burden and premature mortality
- Explain the impact of individual, household and community level risk factors on communicable and non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries
Syllabus
Global health: introduction, conceptual underpinnings and historical foundations
Global health architecture and governance
From the MDGs to the SDGs
Communicable diseases
The epidemiological transition and non-communicable disease
Health and armed conflict
Health impact of global climate change and extreme weather
Cities, urbanisation and emerging health risks
Health systems and service delivery
Healthcare systems and equity
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching will be in person through a mixture of lectures, interactive workshops and seminars.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 78 |
| Teaching | 22 |
| Total study time | 100 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Other. You will access to relevant study materials including lecture slides, selected reading and assignment details/electronic submission via Blackboard.
Internet Resources
Further useful literature can be found by consulting.
Textbooks
Barry B Hughes, Randall Kuhn, Cecilia M. Peterson, Dale S. Rothman & Jose R. Solorzano (2011). Improving Global Health: Patterns of potential human progress Volume 3. Oxford University Press.
Marmot M & Wilkinson RG (Eds.) (2009). Social Determinants of Health. Oxford: OUP.
Kathryn H. Jackobsen (2008). Introduction to Global Health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Crisp N. (2010). Turning the world upside down: The search for global health in the 21st Century. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd.
Lindstrand A et al (2006). Global health: an introductory text book. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Skolnik R. (2008). Essentials of global health. Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Publishers Inc.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Assignment 1: 30%
Assignment 2: 70%
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Assignment | 70% |
| Assignment | 30% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework assignment(s) | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External