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BU5594: HEALTH SYSTEMS AND POLICY RESEARCH (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19


Course Overview

The course aims to instill knowledge but, much more importantly, stimulate students’ thinking about the major challenges within different health systems and the options for the health services management. Furthermore, it aims to take a genuinely international perspective on health care, providing knowledge of different health care systems and encouraging comparison and critique. It covers a wide variety of topics including an overview of the health systems around the world, the effects of social inequalities on health inequalities and their repercussions for social policy and issues of public health policy towards tobacco, alcohol and obesity.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
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What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course contains the following (indicative) content: * core concepts and knowledge paradigms informing approaches to analysing health systems and policy; * ‘doing’ HPSR: study designs, rigour and ethical issues; * community participation in health systems; * evidence and advocacy in public health policy identifying the key actors and relationships that build support for and recognition of certain health priorities over others, with case studies in tobacco regulation and alcohol policy; * health systems around the world; * the main models of the health care financing; * determinants of health inequalities and the related social and health policy with a focus on the social gradient in health; * unemployment effects and austerity policies on mortality; * the effects of pay and employment conditions on health.


Contact Teaching Time

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

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Course Learning Outcomes

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