| Module Title |
Challenging Global Health Problems |
| Module Code |
HEA1014 (ITS: NS370) |
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Faculty |
Nursing, PsyT & Comm Health |
School |
Science & Health |
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NFQ level |
8 |
Credit Rating |
5 |
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Description
The purpose of this module is to analyse the global health problems that confront populations of the world and how they can be challenged in decolonising ways. This module encourages active participation and application of knowledge, focusing on UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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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.
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| Workload | Full time hours per semester | | Type | Hours | Description |
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| Lecture | 24 | No Description | | Independent Study | 101 | No Description |
| Total Workload: 125 |
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| Section Breakdown | | CRN | 10781 | Part of Term | Semester 1 | | Coursework | 0% | Examination Weight | 0% | | Grade Scale | 40PASS | Pass Both Elements | Y | | Resit Category | RC1 | Best Mark | N | | Module Co-ordinator | Anne Matthews | Module Teacher | |
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| Assessment Breakdown |
| Type | Description | % of total | Assessment Date |
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| Assignment | Group and individual assignments will be available on Loop from start of semester. | 100% | As required |
| Reassessment Requirement Type |
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories;
RC1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module.
RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment
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Pre-requisite |
None
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Co-requisite |
None |
| Compatibles |
None |
| Incompatibles |
None |
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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
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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.
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Indicative Reading List
Books:
- 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
Articles:
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Other Resources
- 1: Website, World Health Organisation,
- 418769: 1, Website, OECD- Health,
- http://www.oecd.org/health/: 418770, 1, Website, Countdown to 2015: Maternal newborn and child survival
- http://www.countdown2015mnch.org/: 418771, 1, Website, United Nations Population Fund
- http://www.unfpa.org/public/: 418772, 1, Website, Irish Forum for Global Health
- http://www.globalhealth.ie/: 418773, 1, Website, UN Entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women
- http://www.unwomen.org/: 418774, 1, Website, UN MDGs
- http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/: 418775, 1, Website, UN Development Programme- Human development reports
- http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/:
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