Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Aaron Denham
Payel Ray
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MRes
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Global health recognizes a holistic understanding of health that transcends borders and encompasses the links and transnational movements of people, materials and ideas. This class offers a framework for understanding the complex ways health and disease intersect within a range of global contexts, institutions and practices. In order to affect change at the individual, community and global levels, we need to appreciate how human biology and health are shaped by the larger contexts in which they are embedded and the dynamic and uneven circulation of resources, technology, culture, values and people. In this class, we will examine the role of social, political-economic and environmental forces that shape patterns and the distribution of disease and health across communities and take a critical perspective when examining the underlying value systems in biomedical science, policy, health interventions, and global health practice. Particular topics include health determinants, measurements and trends; key actors in global health efforts; women's and children's health; communicable and non-communicable diseases; global mental health; nutrition; pharmaceuticals; disasters and humanitarian emergencies; science, technology and global health; and, health system design and evaluation.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Participation & Facilitation | 25% | Weekly |
Essay Exam 1 | 20% | Week 8 |
Essay Exam 2 | 20% | Exam Week |
Final Paper | 35% | 14 Nov |
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 25%
Seminar attendance and participation are mandatory. Students are expected to be active participants and demonstrate that they have actively engaged the readings and material presented. Students will lead one seminar (either alone or in pairs) this semester. Seminar leadership entails facilitating a discussion centred on the issues and themes present in the readings. Additional relevant information, theories, or ideas related to the theme can also be presented to unpack or enhance the value of the readings and discussion. Do not prepare a lecture; rather, offer an engaging set of questions and relevant case studies or examples to discuss. The weekly descriptions below discuss the themes and offer questions to guide your efforts.
Due: Week 8
Weighting: 20%
A take-home essay exam with pre-set questions that cover the key concepts from first half of the semester.
Due: Exam Week
Weighting: 20%
A take-home essay exam with pre-set questions that cover the key concepts from second half of the semester.
Due: 14 Nov
Weighting: 35%
A final paper with a 10-15 minute class presentation.
Seminar based discussion
Week |
Date |
Seminar |
1 |
3 Aug |
Introduction: The Scope of Global Health |
2 |
10 Aug |
What We Know and How We Know It: Data, Theories, and Representations |
3 |
17 Aug |
Historical Emergence of Public Health: Sexualisation and Pathologisation of ‘3rd World’ |
4 |
24 Aug |
Health For All? Values, Human Rights, and Health Care |
5 |
31 Aug |
Ethics, Clinical Trials, and the Pharmaceuticalization of Health |
6 |
7 Sept |
Healthcare Delivery, Systems, and Community Based Care |
7 |
14 Sept |
Maternal and Infant Health |
8 |
5 Oct |
Infectious Diseases |
9 |
12 Oct |
Tuberculosis and its Management |
10 |
19 Oct |
Chronic Diseases and the Locus of ‘Responsibility’ |
11 |
26 Oct |
Global Mental Health and the Challenges of Mental Illness |
12 |
2 Nov |
Global Politics of HIV Drug Treatment |
13 |
9 Nov |
Wrap-up and Student Presentations |
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Exam Week |
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New Assessment Policy in effect from Session 2 2016 http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy_2016.html. For more information visit http://students.mq.edu.au/events/2016/07/19/new_assessment_policy_in_place_from_session_2/
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Grade Appeal Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html
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