| Module content |
The module is organised in 3 learning blocks including an assessment at the end of the 3rd week.
In the first block ‘Introduction to the globalisation and health nexus’, students will be familiarised with practical and theoretical debates about processes of globalisation, the global political economy, power and how these processes impact on health and people’s access to health services in very different settings.
In the second block ‘Global health governance and its paradigms’ we examine in detail the respective approaches, actors and their interrelations that are most prominent in global health policy and cooperation. These approaches (paradigms) include trade; security, economic development; public health; humanitarian aid and poverty reduction; human rights and equity; planetary boundaries and climate change.
In the second and third block ‘Persistent problems, new challenges’ we will focus on specific case studies such as, commercial determinants of NCD’s, health workforce migration; the adaptation in communities to innovation and the introduction of modern diagnostics; urban health and environmental pollution; different perspective on sexual and reproductive health rights. Deconstructing the different paradigms, learning from the different case-studies will deepen the understanding of the globalisation and health nexus, including pathways, the governance and actions to overcome/tackle them.The role of (global) civil society and local actors in reducing global health equity will also be discussed. |
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