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Assessment

The assessment for this module comprises of a 3,000 word written essay, where you are required to research a global public health issue and develop a critical analysis of the published evidence underpinning the issue, exploring the themes of health inequality and social determinants.

Campus

Frenchay

Careers/further study

This module can contribute towards the PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc Environmental Health/Environmental Health Studies.

Content

The module syllabus typically includes:

• philosophical, conceptual and theoretical perspectives on global public health, including health, illness, well-being and wellness.
• social, political and ethical values in global public health, including beneficence, equity, social justice, rights, altruism, social responsibility, harm principle, freedom, risk.
• contributions of a range of academic disciplines to global public health, including sociology and anthropology, geography, psychology, political science, economics and biomedicine.
• historical and geographic trends and developments: evolution of the public health field; national and global political developments and the impact on public health.
• global public health in the context of the sustainability and development; cultural, social and environmental: migration; security; globalisation; food systems.
• social determinants of health; inequalities in health and healthcare; local, national and international classification and social stratification (occupation, income, ethnicity, race, culture, religion, generation, age, gender, sexuality, opportunity and ability).

Course Director

Ellis Turner

E-mail

pd@uwe.ac.uk

Introduction

Public health issues need to be viewed on a global scale. In this 15 credit module, Introduction to Environmental and Public Health, you will explore how population health and well-being are influenced by a range of global factors and social determinants, including sustainability and the environment, food systems, security, globalisation and human migration.

This level 7 (Masters level) module aims to:

• introduce core public health issues that impact on health and well-being globally.
• explore the ways in which different academic disciplines contribute to the study of global public heath.
• consider the human, social and ethical context of public health globally and their relevance to understanding inequality, social injustice and rights-based public health.

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

• critically analyse public health issues through appraisal of the range of factors that impact global health and wellbeing.    
• investigate and analyse how global public health and wellbeing issues are conceptualised, researched, reported and regulated.    
• demonstrate critical awareness of the complexity of the human, social and ethical context of global public health and how this is relevant to understanding inequality, social injustice and rights-based public health.

Learning and Teaching

The module is delivered through a combination of both synchronous and asynchronous learning; some elements are taught face-to-face on campus and others online. Students will have access to time-dependent release of online asynchronous resources and access to a programme of synchronous lectures, seminars and tutorials.

The module takes a multi-disciplinary approach, providing contributions across the health and social sciences to explore the nature and complexity of public health in a global context.

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Telephone

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Title

15 credit level 7 module