Fundamentals of global health – introductory course (GHCF 611) (5cr)
Code: HDG1005Y14S-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 02.07.2018 - 31.07.2018
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 06.08.2018 - 20.12.2018
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Campus
- Helsinki
- Teaching languages
- English
- Degree programmes
- Master's Degree in Global Health Care
- Teachers
- Jaana Tilli
- Arja Suikkala
- Course
- HDG1005Y14S
Unfortunately, no reservations were found for the realization Fundamentals of global health – introductory course (GHCF 611) HDG1005Y14S-3001. It's possible that the reservations have not yet been published or that the realization is intended to be completed independently.
Objective
After completing the course, students will be able to
- analyze the meaning of globalization and development in relation to the central aspects of health
- be informed and make ethical decisions on the basis of the central values of love, forgiveness, compassion and participation
- analyze the importance of human rights and gender equality in global health discussion
- use the terminology of global health as well as critically explain the main health indicators and health determinants
- explain, with the help of the most current research, the most significant causes of illness and communicable and non-communicable diseases
- explain the role of disease prevention and health promotion
- analyze the different models and structures of health care and discuss the impacts of various cultural aspects upon health
- explain the content and meaning of different global health strategies and the role of nursing and allied health sciences in delivering the health care
Content
Core contents
1 Development and globalization
2 Global health challenges
- Disease prevention and surveillance
- Communicable and non-communicable diseases
3 Basic concepts of global health
- Health indicators
- Social determinants of health
- Health transition
4 Global health ethics and values
- Human rights Gender issues
5 Health systems
- Cultural aspects of health
- Challenges and possibilities of alternative health care
6 Global health strategies
- UN Millennium Development Goals
- Health 2020 program
- National strategies
- Health promotion
7 The role of nursing and allied health sciences in global health
- Theories of transcultural nursing
- Health care worker crises