Critique the role of the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals in driving health systems and the global health agenda in High income, middle and low income countries.
Module Aims
This module aims :
⦁ To enhance student understanding of global health challenges and public health responses with an ability to critically evaluate these issues from political, social, and epidemiological perspectives.
⦁ To gain in-depth understanding of health protection and public health improvement in the context of economic
development, governance, and human rights.
⦁ To provide a comparative view across low, middle- and high-income settings, along with depth case studies for a within-setting historical view.
⦁ To highlight key determinants, approaches to analysis, possible interventions and metrics for evaluation.
⦁ What should I start to think about?
At its core, global health is concerned with policy and practice that aim to understand global challenges. In this module, you will be able to draw upon success and failure in addressing communicable and non-communicable public health issues globally. The COVID-19 outbreak currently is a global challenge; try to think what are global health and data-driven policies for emergency responses in a pandemic?
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will be able to:
Knowledge
1. Critically evaluate global health issues in terms of social, environmental and political determinants and the role of key national and international organisations and initiatives;
2. Judge relevance of evidence-based solutions for addressing population health needs and the differences in low, middle and high-income countries.
Thinking skills
3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of relevant global health issues through research from primary and secondary sources.
Subject-based practical skills
4. Provide a critical review of a public health issue and response within a global context using an appropriate political, social, and epidemiological lens.
Skills for life and work (general skills)
5. Integrate concepts from the epidemiological and social context for a given global health challenge to inform policy debates when working with variable levels of data, resources and political commitments.
