Course overview
The aim of this course is to critically explore the extent and dimensions of current globally important public health issues, with a focus on health and healthcare inequalities. In this course you will learn how to strengthen public health programs and health services to reduce/eliminate program and service inequities and achieve health equality. You will focus on a range of global health aspects including policies, resources, epidemiological and social contexts. Through real-world scenarios, you will learn about the factors facilitating access, quality, as well as the role stakeholders have in relation to delivering equitable public health programs and services. This course will prepare you with the knowledge needed to become an effective health professional in a global context.
Course learning outcomes
- Define major contemporary global health issues in terms of extent of inequalities between and within countries
- Describe salient features of developed and developing countries’ health care systems
- Discuss global and local structural, social and health system factors influencing health and health care
- Compare and contrast factors that influence the quality of and access to care at the national level for sub-population groups and Indigenous people
- Define factors that impact effectiveness of public health programs across countries and action that are being taken to address those factors
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