Learning outcomes

To provide historic, economic and cultural context to international health and health policy development, describe how health can be measured in different settings, describe the role of different health determinants and major communicable and non-communicable diseases and to briefly describe how health care services are organized in different countries.

Contents

• Global and age-specific distribution of health and health determinants
• Millennium Development Goals and other international health policies
• Burden of globally most important communicable and non-communicable diseases
• Role of preventive and curative health interventions, basics of organizing heath care in different settings

Further information on prerequisites and recommendations

Attendance is open for all University of Tampere students but limited to 32 students. Preference is given to degree students in health sciences and others will be accepted in the order of registration. Degree students are required to take the complete course (6 ECTS).

Also available: Lectures in health and illness in a global context, 2 ECTS. Unlimited attendance.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	20 h	0 h
Tutorials	16 h	0 h
Group work	10 h	0 h
Independent work	134 h	0 h

Teaching language

English

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Active participation in problem based learning exercises, participation in and completion of group exercises, oral presentation of own country profile, passing exam.

Recommended year of study

1. year autumn

Further information

Registration is not required from Master of Health Science (International Health) students. Other students should register for the course on the internet
at http://www.uta.fi/nettiopsu/. Deadline for registration is 21.9.2009

Belongs to following study modules