Module: Challenging Global Health Problems

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Challenging Global Health Problems
Module Code	NS370 (ITS) / HEA1014 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Nursing, PsyT & Comm Health
Module Co-ordinator	Anne Matthews
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

The purpose of this module is to examine the global health problems that confront populations of the world and how they can be challenged.

Learning Outcomes

1. Analyse the factors behind contemporary global health problems including hunger, conflict, poverty, inequalities, and climate change.
2. Examine specific global health challenges such as maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality, HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, non-communicable diseases and malnutrition.
3. Analyse responses to global health challenges including the Millennium Development Goals 2000-2015 and the Sustainable Development Goals 2015-2030.

*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

Factors influencing global health problems
Geopolitics, hunger, poverty, conflict, climate change and environmental degradation, trade, poverty, inequalities, globalisation, commerce.

Specific global health challenges
Maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality. HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other major diseases. Food and nutrition, hunger and malnutrition. Poverty, development, inequalities. Education and development. Gender equality and empowerment of girls and women. Water, sanitation and hygiene for health. Climate change, sustainability and health.

Responses to global health challenges
Development aid effectiveness, global health organisations and governance, Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, solving enduring problems, social innovation, activism.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	To include: a report on a specific global health challenge chosen by the student (50%); Learning journal entries (30%); Student presentation (10%); Online participation and engagement (10%).	100%	As required

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 Ichiro Kawachi, Sarah Wamala: 2007, Globalization and health, ebook (via DCU library), 9780195172997
Barry H. Smith MD PhD (Editor), Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD MBA RN FAAN (Editor), Pamela Hoyt-Hudson BSN RN (Editor): 2010, Problem Solving for Better Health, ebook (via DCU library), 0826104681
Laverack, Glenn; Labonte, Ronald: 2008, Health Promotion in Action, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 0230228372
Robert Beaglehole (Editor), Ruth Bonita (Editor): 2009, Global Public Health: A New Era, ebook (via DCU library), 0199236623
Sara Davies,: 2010, Global Politics of Health, Polity, Cambridge, 9780745640419
Malcolm MacLachlan: 2006, Culture and health, Wiley, Chichester, 0470847360
edited by Martin McKee, Paul Garner, Robin Stott: 2001, International co-operation in health, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 0192631985
edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt: 2000, Poverty, inequality, and health, ebook, 0192631969
Stephen McCloskey; Boyle, Aisling: 2011, The activist's handbook: a guide to activism on global issues, ebook, Centre for Global Education, London,
edited by Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan: 2011, Gender and global restructuring, ebook, 0203894979
Smith, Richard, Hanson, Kara: 2012, Health systems in low- and middle-income countries: an economic and policy perspective, ebook, 0191731188
Jeff French, Clive Blair-Stevens, Dominic McVey, Rowena Merritt,: 2010, Social Marketing and Public Health, ebook, Chapters 17 and 21, 9780199550692
edited by Daniel Perlman, Ananya Roy: 2008, The practice of international health, Oxford University Press, New York, 0195310276
Amartya Sen: 1999, Development as freedom, OUP, Oxford, 0192893300

Other Resources

61184, Website, 0, World Health Organisation, http://www.who.int/en/, 61185, Website, 0, OECD- Health, http://www.oecd.org/health/, 61186, Website, 0, Countdown to 2015: Maternal newborn and child survival, http://www.countdown2015mnch.org/, 61187, Website, 0, United Nations Population Fund, http://www.unfpa.org/public/, 61188, Website, 0, Irish Forum for Global Health, http://www.globalhealth.ie/, 61189, Website, 0, UN Entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, http://www.unwomen.org/, 61190, Website, 0, UN MDGs, http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/, 61191, Website, 0, UN Development Programme- Human development reports, http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/,