SL40105: Global health & management (PA40334)
[Page last updated: 26 October 2023]
| Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Life Sciences |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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| Requisites: | While taking this module you must take SL40121 AND ( take SL40122 OR take SL40117 ) AND take SL40109 |
| Learning Outcomes: |
After successfully completing this unit, the student pharmacist will be able to:
1. Discuss emerging issues and challenges in trans-national health. 2. Critically discuss the global burden of disease and the role of the pharmacists and the pharmaceutical industry 3. Discuss the role of epidemiology in health[JL1] 4. Critically discuss the nature of public health and how it is delivered. 5. Demonstrate an awareness of government agendas for health and social care in the UK. 6. Understand how the health and social services are structured to implement policy in the UK. 7. Demonstrate an awareness of current local and national public health policies. 8. Demonstrate the ability to provide input into local, national or international public health policies with a view to enhancing service delivery. |
| Aims: | To provide the student pharmacist with a critical awareness of current issues affecting global public health and the pharmacist's potential role in contributing to improving global health outcomes, and for the student pharmacist to critically evaluate scientific and health policy information and to present a given topic as an oral communication supported by a written abstract. |
| Skills: | Study skills, handling information, working with others (T/F)
Problem solving (T/F/A) Study skills (T/F/A) Handling information (T/F/A) Written communication (T/F/A) Information & communication technology (ICT) (T/F/A) |
| Content: | * Pharmaceuticals and global health * Pharmaceutical innovation in the 21st century * Concepts and controversies in global health * Health, poverty and development * Socioeconomic determinants of health and disease * Health inequalities * Local, national and global public health * Resurgence of infectious diseases and control strategies * Management of communicable disease * Pandemic planning * The roles of government, non-government organisations, regulators and the pharmaceutical industry in responding to global pharmaceutical needs * Health care systems and financing; health governance and political factors. |
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SL40105 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:Department of Life Sciences
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