Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Upon successful completion of this course students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1.       Demonstrate an understanding of global disease patterns, the importance of health information systems, and the framework for action.

2.       Understand the structure of health systems and their variability across high and middle and low income countries

3.       Identify infectious diseases that impact significantly upon the health of the global population; their determinants and strategies for control. 

4.       Examine epidemiological, nutritional, and health transitions (including maternal and child health), and identify determinants operating in affected population.

5.       Identify causes and patterns of injuries and major chronic non-communicable diseases, their determinants; and preventative measures.

6.       Critically evaluate global response strategies to complex emergencies, post-conflict and disaster preparedness, and public health issues relating to refugees and displaced persons.

Indicative Assessment

• Participation in 12 tutorials (10%), and 12 Wattle online discussion forums (10%) – total 20% - LO1-6
• Session quiz questions (12 sessions) - 10% - LO 1-6
• Assignment: Viewpoint paper – 30% - LO 1-6
• Assignment: Disease control program – 40% LO 1-6

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Workload

1-hour sessions of online delivered lectures as well as 2 hrs face to face tutorials per week for 12 weeks; plus a 1-hr wrap-up session at the end of semester. Students are expected to undertake a further 7-8 hours per week of independent study.

Prescribed Texts

Detels et al (Eds) 2015. Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health (6th ed). Oxford University Press.

Preliminary Reading

As above

Jamison et al. 2006. Disease control priorities in developing countries. (2nd ed). Oxford University Press and The World Bank. Accessible online http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11728/toc
Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 collaborators. 2015. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60692-4
Lancet Commission on Investing in Health. 2013. Global Health 2035: a world converging within a generation. The Lancet. 382(9908):1898–01955.
Nathanson et al. 2011. A comparison of five introductory textbooks in global health. Global Public Health. 6(2): 210-19.
- Essentials of global health, by R. Skolnik, Sudbury, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2008.
- Understanding global health, edited by W.H. Markle et al, Columbus, McGraw Hill, 2007.
- Global health, an introductory textbook, by A. Lindstrand et al, Denmark, Studentlitteratur, 2006.
- An introduction to international health, by M. Seear, Toronto, Canadian Scholars Press, 2007.
- Introduction to global health, by K.H. Jacobsen, Sudbury, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2008.
Popkin, BM. 1994. The nutrition transition in low-income countries: an emerging crisis. Nutrition Reviews. 52: 285-98.
Rosling H. 2009. Let my dataset change your mindset (debunking third world myths through data) http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state  Gapminder Foundation; Karolinska Institute.
WHO. 2008. Commission on Social Determinants of Health: final report. World Health Organization, Geneva.

Assumed Knowledge

A health care background is recommended but not essential. Basic knowledge of epidemiology and statistics would be an advantage

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