The course develops knowledge of critical theories and concepts of public health and an alert attitude to issues in public health.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student is familiar with societal premises of some central discussions within public health research, knows critical public health theories and their conceptual bases, and is able to utilize them in scrutinizing public health issues.
Contents
The articles and the book included in the study materials (listed below) will be discussed in three workshops that focus on most important theoretical implications of these texts. The detailed program of the workshops will be delivered to the enrolled students before the start of the course. All texts will be examined in an examination taking place at the end of the course.
Teaching language
English
Modes of study
Option
1
Available for:
Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Open University Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students
Participation in course work
In
English
Further information
Lectures, group work, exam
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Study materials
Marmot, Michael (2003). Understanding social inequalities in health. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 46, S9-S23.
Rose, Geoffrey (2001). Sick individuals and sick populations. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30, 427-432.
Hunt, Kate & Emslie, Carol (2001). Commentary: the prevention paradox in lay epidemiology – Rose revisited. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30, 442-446.
Davison, Charlie, Frankel, Stephen & Davey Smith, George (1992). The limits of lifestyle: re-assessing ‘fatalism’ in the popular culture of illness prevention. Social Science & Medicine, 34, 675-685.
Zola, Irving (1972). Medicine as an institution of social control. Sociological Review, 20, 487-503.
Armstrong, David (1995). The rise of surveillance medicine. Sociology of Health and Illness, 17, 393-404.
Peterson A. & Lupton D. The new public health. Sage, London 1996.
Further information
Offered every second year (next time in Spring 2016).