‘Perspectives on Global Health’ introduces you to global health by exploring the history of global health, the global disease burden, topical...

Perspectives on Global Health (IEHC0079)

‘Perspectives on Global Health’ introduces you to global health by exploring the history of global health, the global disease burden, topical issues in health and development, and key interventions to improve health worldwide. At the same time, the module will help you understand how different disciplines - such as economics, political science and anthropology - think about global health.

After taking this module, you should be able to


	Describe major trends in the global burden of disease.
	
	
	Describe key dilemmas in global health and international development.
	
	
	Understand how different disciplines "think" about global health.
	
	
	Evaluate responses to a range of global health and development issues.
	
This is an introductory module for Year 1 students on the BSc Population Health Sciences programme. There is limited availability for UCL elective students from other departments. Places are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis on Portico when the module selection opens. Spaces are limited.

 

Selected Reading List 


	Deaton A (2013). The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequalities. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
	
	
	Farmer P (2004). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley, University of California Press.
	
	
	Sen A (1999). Development as Freedom. Oxford, OUP.

‘Social Determinants of Health’ is a module designed to provide you with a thorough grounding in the theories, conceptual frameworks and...

Social Determinants of Health (IEHC0027)

The module provides students with a range of theories and methods to explore the connections between environmental change, economic change and political change...

Environment, State and Economy (HIST0846)

The module provides students with a range of theories and methods to explore the connections between environmental change, economic change and political change from a long-term perspective. The module will explore these connections primarily through three interdisciplinary lines of literature on environmental economic history, historical political economy, and political environmental history, drawing historical examples from any time period, country or region. Besides engaging with the relevant literature and theories, students on the module will reflect on historical methods and sources used within these fields. The weekly topics will explore environmental (such as geography and natural resources), political (such as the formation of states and legal institutions) and economic factors (such as economic development, inequality and living standards) in relation to each other from a macro-historical perspective.

 