Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
SP50172 International health policy |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims:
* To review and evaluate critically the literature on specific areas of health policy using a variety of social science perspectives. * To demonstrate a critical understanding of the diverse trajectories of health policy development in different world regions. * To enable students to identify, research and develop their own arguments in specialist areas of international health policy making. * To develop practical skills of health policy analysis and evaluation. Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and understanding of health policy challenges and responses under diverse national social, economic and political conditions, in different world regions. Skills: * Ability to analyse and evaluate international health policymaking experiences and outcomes. * Ability to analyse critically the relationship between local, national and global processes of health policymaking. * Ability to identify, research and develop arguments in specialist areas of international health policy making. * Ability to undertake health policy analysis and evaluation applied to a specific area of health policy taken from a comparative or international context. * Ability to carry out independent and original analysis of concrete health policymaking problems. * Ability to analyse and synthesise multidisciplinary perspectives on the same problem. Content: * Comparative analysis of different health care systems: typologies, funding mechanisms, models of delivery. * Public attitudes to health care. * Comparative public health policy, in relation to inequalities in health and leading causes of morbidity and mortality. |