Module manager: Ricky Kalliecharan
Email: r.kalliecharan@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 01 Oct to 31 Oct (1mth) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module interrogates current debates around health, equity and development. It introduces critical perspectives and questions some of the ideologies and assumptions lying behind health policies and development approaches. Through an analysis of key health policy issues, the module explores the complex, messy and political world of health policy making and planning.
This module introduces the students to current debates around health, equity and development and encourages them to question some of the ideologies and assumptions lying behind health policies and development approaches.
Through an analysis of key health policy issues, the students will explore the complex, messy and political world of health policy making and planning.
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- demonstrate a critical understanding of some of the ideologies and assumptions lying behind health policies and programmes and development approaches
- demonstrate a critical awareness of topical issues in international health policy
- critically analyse health policies, policy making environments and processes, and the role of different actors in health policy making, from an international perspective
- demonstrate an understanding of gendered aspects in health policy, planning and development.
Knowledge of models of health and development, and frameworks for policy analysis will allow students to:
a) analyse health policies
b) examine the role that different stakeholders at local, national and international level, might play in promoting health.
Ability to apply policy analysis frameworks.
The module will include the following topics:
- Models of health and development
- Health, development and globalisation
- Health policy analysis and frameworks
- International policy and development actors
- International aid: donors, priorities and politics
- Equity and human rights approaches to health policy, planning and development
- Case studies
- Mental health
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Governance and corruption
- Climate change.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class tests, exams and assessment | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Seminar | 8 | 3 | 24 |
| Independent online learning hours | 8 | ||
| Private study hours | 116 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 26 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
- Preparing for, and conducting assignments: 68 hours
- Involvement in module specific web-based discussion forum: 8 hours (1 hour x 8 seminars)
- Reading prior to and following each seminar: 48 (6 hours x 8 seminars).
- Observation of class discussion, presentations and group work - verbal feedback given by lecturer.
- Monitoring of discussion in module-specific web-based forum
- Assignments - written feedback given by marker.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Essay | 2,000 words | 65 |
| Presentation | Group verbal presentation 30 minutes total. 1000 words equivalent | 30 |
| Reflective log | 200 words | 5 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 5/9/2024
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