Global Health
7.5 ECTS creditsInstruction is in the form of lectures, seminars, and group exercises. The course starts out from the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals and comprises the following:
- Definitions of global health and public health
- Health inequality and its consequences nationally and globally
- The determining factors of health
- Global health challenges such as poverty, infections and epidemic diseases, non-contagious disease, oral health, injuries, violence, climate change, migration, and urbanisation
- Measures of health and disease
- Definitions of global health and public health
- Health inequality and its consequences nationally and globally
- The determining factors of health
- Global health challenges such as poverty, infections and epidemic diseases, non-contagious disease, oral health, injuries, violence, climate change, migration, and urbanisation
- Measures of health and disease
Progressive specialisation:
G1N (has only upper‐secondary level entry requirements)
Education level:
Undergraduate level
Admission requirements:
General admission requirements
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
Course code:
FHGGH1
The course is not included in the course offerings for the next period.