Global Health
Syllabus for course at advanced level
Course Name
Global Health
Course code : GH2111101
Department : Department of Health Policy and Management
Main field : Health Policy and Management
Term : Semester 4
Time commitment : 120 hours
Prerequisites and special admittance requirements
Admitted to the master’s program in Health Policy and Management.
Course content
A thorough overview of global health will be covered throughout the course, giving students insight into the difficulties that the field is now facing. Additionally, students will learn why addressing global health concerns is so crucial since it has the ability to eradicate poverty, strengthen economies, and advance peace. Students will understand how socioeconomic and demographic variations can affect the burden of disease in addition to being exposed to the main infectious and noncommunicable diseases that have a significant impact on health. There will also be a presentation of several other crucial underlying aspects, such as behavioral, cultural, and environmental impacts. The course will examine how research findings are translated into policy and practice through the use of case reports from around the globe. Students will be motivated to comprehend that addressing issues related to global health necessitates the involvement of several academic fields. Speakers from a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, ethics, economics, and diplomacy, will be chosen to highlight this point. Included in the course will be an interactive group exercise.
Learning objectives
After completing the course the student should be able to:
- Explain the significance of important public health ideas pertaining to global health; 2. recognize and critically analyze important global health concerns from many angles;
- Explain the prevalence of sickness in different parts of the world with assurance;
- Evaluate the most important health inequalities; 5. List the major players and institutions in global health
- Determine the similarities between public health practices, policies, and programs that have an impact on global health.
- Modify the social-ecological framework to foster critical thinking skills and use them in a successful program to address global health.
- In environments with limited resources, present inventive, imaginative, and culturally acceptable solutions to particular global health issues.
- Through the group presentation and other in-class group projects, strengthen your team-building abilities.
Topics
- International political economy of Global Health
- Foreign aid for health
- World trade vs world health
- HIV/AIDS: global issues, program and policy
- Neglected infectious diseases: global issues, program and policy
- Dengue: global issues, program and policy
- Climate change
- Malaria: global issues, program and policy
- Global immunization
- Non-communicable diseases
- Global mental health
- Global health agenda
Education
The teaching consists of:
- Lectures
- Self-study through eLearning
- Online synchronous discussion
The teaching is delivered through a combination of 60% in-person classes and 40% online classes.
Forms of examination
The course is examined through:
- Assignment, 10%
- Mid-term examination, 30%
- Final examination, 60%
Required reading
- Beaglehole R, Bonita R (2009) Global Public Health: A New Era. 2nd Ed Oxford University Press, USA
- Birn A, Pillay Y, Holtz TH (2009). Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, USA
- Detels R, Beaglehole R, Lansang MA, Gulliford M (2009) Oxford textbook of public health. 5th ed. Oxford University Press, USA.
- Sachs JD (2005) The end of poverty: economic possibilities for our time. Penguin press.
- Easterly W, Birdsall N (2008) Reinventing foreign aid. MIT Press, USA.
- Easterly W (2007) The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done. Penguins, USA