Global Health

Year
1
Academic year
2023-2024
Code
02025270
Subject Area
Human Geography
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
10.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The curricular unit will be developed with theoretical-practical sessions that, generically, correspond to the realization and presentation of  the students' research work. In the sessions, concepts, contents, results, difficulties encountered by the students throughout the work, in its different phases, will be presented/discussed.

Learning Outcomes

Health problems cross national borders and have a global impact on development. In this sense, this seminar intends to reflect on transnational health problems, their determinants and possible mitigations modes.The relationship between health and development, the role of poverty, deprivation, aging, social exclusion, mobility and other factors as determinants of vulnerability and health risk contexts, the relationship between environment, environmental change, social inequalities and the (new) social and health problems, as well as the socioterritorial impact of territorial and multi-scale health policies will be the subjects of study at this seminar. We intend to develop in students the ability to define research topics in global health, apply appropriate research methods, and identify / evaluate interventions on factors that promote the health of populations and reduce health inequities.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Health and development - variations, inequalities and inequities in health.
1.1. Social, political, economic and environmental determinants and territorial patterns - the importance of scale.
1.2. Demographic aging, a global and unequal process – macroeconomic implications, intergenerational tensions, health challenges and needs.
1.3. Modern epidemiological profiles and new epidemics. Emerging and re-emerging infectious disease; chronic disease; health-related behaviors. Syndemics.
2. Globalization and health – health as a key factor in contemporary global geopolitics.
2.1. Global challenges in health and national (de)stabilization processes (economic, political and social). Examples of Covid 19 and food safety.
2.2. Global environmental change, international environmental policies and health.
2.3. Disease prevention and health promotion: health policies and the role of international organizations and other public and private agencies/entities.

Head Lecturer(s)

Helena Guilhermina da Silva Marques Nogueira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Project: 20.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Brown, T(2011),Vulnerability is universal:Considering the place of ‘security’ and ‘vulnerability’ within contemporary global health discourse.SocSciMed,72, p319-326.
Brown,T; Moon,G(2012), Geography and Global Health. The GeoJournal,178, p13-17.
Cohen, R.et al. (2014), Post-2015 health goals: could country-specific targets supplement global ones?Lancet GlHealth, 2 (7),p. e373-e374.
Labonté,R.et al. (2011), The growing impact of globalization for health and public health practice. Annu. Rev. PublHealth,32, p 263-283.
Labonté, R,Togerson, R. (2005), Interrogating Globalization, Health and Development: Towards a omprehensive framework for research, policy and political action. Critical Public Health, 15(2), p. 157-179.
Remoaldo,P., Nogueira,H.(2013) (cd), Desigualdades socioterritoriais e comportamentos em saúde. Lisboa: EdColibri.
Risthworth A.; Elliot, S. (2018) Global environmental change in an aging world: The role of space, place and scale. SocSciMed doi: 10.1016/j.socs