POL 253 - Topics: Perspectives on Global Health (1)

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the field of global health, focusing on developing countries. The course identifies the main actors, institutions, and practices characteristic global health today, and explores the environmental, social, political and economic factors that shape patterns and experiences of illness and healthcare across societies. Through the use of case studies and discussion of current controversies in global health, students will become familiar with potential successful strategies to improve global health and the challenges that modernization may bring. Key topics include: policies and approaches to global health governance and interventions, global economies and their impacts on public health, medical humanitarianism, global mental health, maternal and child health, food insecurity, health and human rights, and global health ethics.
(Social Science)