International health: Regional and global changes over time, 15 ECTS
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The course consists of two blocks: first block focuses on the impact of globalisation on international health. In what way does the increasingly dense global exchange influence the health of different countries? Specific countries and world regions will be discussed, where problems of public health have proven difficult to solve, for instance Sub-Saharan Africa and countries in the former Soviet Union. Social inequalities in health within rich and poor countries and their connection with global developments will be discussed. We will highlight the public health situation in countries which are seen as benefiting from globalisation, such as India and China.
The second block will focus on present and future global health architecture, in other words on organisation and activities of various international bodies such as UN, WHO or the World Bank, as well as of national organisations, active in the field of global health and welfare. The inner connections of global health with the struggle to make poverty history or to stabilise the climate will be discussed.
Area of interests: Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Law
Are you interested in human beings and society? How we function individually and together, what drives us, our learning processes, how rules and laws have been established, and how we interact with each other? If that is the case we have a lot to offer. This area of interest covers anything from Pedagogy, Psychology and Gender Studies, to Statistics, Political Science, Law and many other subjects. Their common denominator is the relation between human beings and society, independent analytical thinking and often an international perspective.
Subject
Public Health Sciences
Public health science is a multidisciplinary subject focusing on the relation between society and health. These relations are studied on both societal, group and individual level, but relations between these levels are also central. Public health science focus on links between macro and micro, where the endpoints consists of the structure of society and individual biological processes, as well as processes over the life cycle.
CHESS (Centre for Health Equity Studies) provide the Master programme “Population health: Societal and individual perspectives” 120 ECTS. With a basis in current international research, the Master programme provide a broad knowledge in Public health and a deepend understanding for how health is related to individual characteristics and the structuring of society. From a life course perspective and with a focus on international health the programme deals with the whole chain from biological processes to welfare policy, where connections to inequality in health is put forward.