Module: Marginalisation & Health

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Marginalisation & Health
Module Code	NS142 (ITS) / HEA1029 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Nursing, PsyT & Comm Health
Module Co-ordinator	Marcia Kirwan
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	6	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

In this module students will develop their understanding of the processes of marginalisation, associated inequalities in health and how communities respond to these processes.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the social and political processes of marginalisation.
2. Analyse the links between maginalisation and health inequalities.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of how communities challenge marginalisation.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	No Description
Independent Study	101	No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

The social and political processes of marginalisation.
Inequalities, injustice, exclusion, diversity, capabilities.

Marginalisation and health inequalities.

Challenging marginalisation.
Empowerment, collective action, resistance, activism.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	Volunteering experience, reflections, groupwork	100%	Sem 2 End

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

edited by Barry L. Levy and Victor W. Sidel: 2006, Social injustice and public health, ebook (via DCU library), Oxford University Press, New York, 0195171853
Amartya Sen: 1992, Inequality reexamined, ebook (via DCU library), 9780198283348
Hilary Graham,: 2009, Understanding Health Inequalities, 2nd ebook (via DCU library), 0335234593
Ruger, Jennifer Prah: 2009, Health and social justice, eBook, Chapter 7: An alternative account- the health capability paradigm, 9780191571305
edited by Johannes Siegrist and Michael Marmot: 2006, Social inequalities in health, ebook (via DCU library), 0198568169
Martha Nussbaum: 2000, Women and human development, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 0521660866
edited by Richard G. Wilkinson and Michael Marmot: 2006, Social determinants of health, ebook (via DCU library), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 0198565895
Martha C. Nussbaum,: 2011, Creating Capabilities, 0674050541
edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt: 2000, Poverty, inequality, and health, ebook, 0192631969
Malcolm Dean (Editor), Paul Cann (Editor): 2009, Unequal Ageing, ebook (via DCU library), 1847424112
Cecilia L Ridgeway: 2011, Framed by gender: how gender inequality persists in the modern world, 9780199894925

Other Resources

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