Unit name | Anthropology and Global Health |
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Unit code | SSCM30003 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Lambert |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Medical School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the roles of culture, social structure and political economy in shaping global health problems and interventions by introducing students to anthropological approaches to global health and bioethics.
This unit will be taught in the form of workshops using a variety of teaching methods including lectures, presentations, journal clubs, debates and seminars.
Formative assessment: Group presentations in week 5 based on allotted readings
Summative assessment: 3000 word individual essay
Gender, health and gender equity in a global context Payne, S. (2009) How can gender equity be addressed through health systems?
World Health Organisation http://www.euro.who.int/document/E92846.pdf
Vlassoff, C and Moreno, CG (2002) Placing gender at the centre of health programming: challenges and limitations Social Science and Medicine, 54, 11, 1713-23 (ejournal, online) Doyal, L, (2000) Gender equity in health: Debates and dilemmas 51, 6, 931- 9
Krieger, N. (2003) Genders, sexes, and health: what are the connections? and why does it matter? International Journal of Epidemiology 32, 652-7
Standing, H. (1997) Gender and equity in health sector reform programmes: a review Health Policy and Planning, 12, 1-18 Child Health &the Rights of the Child
International Convention on the Rights of the Child. www.unicef.org/crc/index.html Lancet series – child survival (2003): Vol. 361, pp 2172, 2226-2234, Vol. 362, pp 65-71, 159-164, 233-241, 262 and 323-327
Waterston T, Goldhagen J. Why children’s rights are central to international child health. Arch Dis Child 2007 92: 176-180
Safe Motherhood. WHO reproductive health site + WHO (1999) Standards of midwifery practice for safe motherhood
www.who.int/reproductive-health Please look at this website which graphically depicts the issues http://www.unfpa.org/safemotherhood/