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Course details

Course type:

Online course

Duration:

12 weeks (online)

Home fee:

£1,550

Overseas fee:

£1,550

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This is a flexible online programme that enables you to stay at ‘home’ whilst being an (international) student learning with other students from different parts of the world in a high-quality research-led academic environment.

You will gain knowledge in global health inequalities and the determinants of health operating at local and global levels.

You will develop practical skills and strategies for protecting and promoting the health of populations in various global settings.

This is an Online / Part-Time, Masters level 20 credit module available for continuing professional development. This module forms part of our MSc Global Health.

Programme Outline

The module introduces you to the emergence of global health as a discipline, its meanings, key concepts, and values that drive its practices and your position within the discipline. You will develop a critical understanding of key concepts in global health, its history, and the power imbalances inherent within the discipline, necessitating reflectivity, safeguarding, and ethical practices. Through this module you will be able to critically explore how the social determinants of health operating at local and global levels influence the unequal distribution of ill-health. Learning is supported by a range of online teaching methods that include directed and self-directed learning, debates, seminars, group work, case studies and threaded discussion boards. You will also develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, and communication supporting you in driving innovative solutions that help to improve health outcomes.

Summative assessment: A 3500-word individual case study essay.

Topics will include

Emergence of global health as a discipline
The contested concepts ‘decolonising’

Demographic, nutritional and epidemiological transitions
Social determinants of health and inequalities
Globalisation and health
Positionality
Safeguarding and ethics in global health practices
Getting the evidence and critical appraisal

20 Academic Credits - Assessments

Please see attached specification for assessment information. Assessments are optional but advise all students to take the assessments to cement their learning and to earn highly transferrable credits.

For an additional fee of £95, you can be entered for full Academic Credits for this course (Masters level credit). The academic credits are offered to provide choice and flexibility to all of our students and students who do not wish to do the assessments will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance. Applicants wishing to find out more about the assessment should contact MyLSTM@lstmed.ac.uk(link sends e-mail).

Entrance Requirements

English language requirements:

The programme is taught in English. Students whose first language is not English must provide evidence of an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of at least 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in all learning components, or a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of at least 88 for the Internet-based Test (iBT), with minimum scores of 21 for Listening and Writing, 22 for Reading and 23 for Speaking. Tests should be within their validity period of 2 years. We also accept other evidence - a full list can be found on our English page - https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/international-and-eu-students/english-language-requirements

Aims

This course aims to:

Critically discuss global health as a discipline and the meaning of power inherent within it, including the importance of reflectivity, safeguarding and ethical practice

Critically assess the influence of social determinants of health and globalisation on health and health equity

Critically reflect on the influence of nutritional, epidemiological, and demographic transitions in global health

Critically appraise and apply key concepts in global health responding to an important global health issue

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Start date	End date	Home fee	Overseas fee
16 September 2024	13 December 2024	£1,550	£1,550	Apply

Start date:
16 September 2024

End date:
13 December 2024

Home fee:
£1,550

Overseas fee:
£1,550

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Global Health Practices