Strategic themes:
Internationalisation,
Sustainable development
General description
An introductory course to international health issues.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student understands the historic, economic and cultural context of international health, is able to describe how health can be measured in different settings, has the skills to describe the role of different health determinants and major communicable and non-communicable diseases and knows the basics of 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