SL52116: Global health
[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]
Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Life Sciences |
Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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Assessment Summary: | CWOI 100% |
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By the end of the unit, you 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.
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. Demonstrate an awareness of current local and national public health policies.
7. Demonstrate the ability to provide input into local, national or international public health policies with a view to enhancing service delivery. |
Synopsis: | This unit will provide the student pharmacist with a critical awareness of current issues affecting global public health and the pharmacists 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. |
Content: | Pharmaceuticals and global health
Concepts and controversies in global health
Socioeconomic determinants of health and disease
Health, poverty and development
Health inequalities
Pharmaceutical innovation in the 21st�¿century
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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SL52116 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following courses:Department of Life Sciences
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