General description

Introductory course in global health

Learning outcomes

To provide the 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 describe briefly 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 limited to students enrolled on the Master's program in Health Sciences (International Health). Attendance to lectures is unlimited; see Introductory lectures in Global Health.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	20 h	0 h
Tutorials	12 h	0 h
Group work	10 h	0 h

Lectures, group work and tutor sessions

Teaching language

English

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Written exam is graded fail or pass with grades 1-5

Recommended year of study

1. year autumn

Study materials

In addition: selected scientific articles Lindstrand A. et al., Global Health - an Introductory Textbook. Studentliteratur 2006. 13:978-91-44-02198-0; Health Statistics Series. Lancet 2007.

Further information

Organization responsible: Department of International Health, University of Tampere Medical School

Belongs to following study modules