Unit name | Maternal and Child Health |
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Unit code | COBM31024 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Alan Emond |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Sex and gender have a large impact on the health of women and men, particularly in the context of sexual and reproductive health. Inequalities in the health of women and children are often particularly apparent. Since children represent 50% of the population in many low-income countries and child health is intricately bound with maternal health this has huge inmpact on global health. This unit will explore global inequalities in gender, child and maternal health and look at implications for global health priorities. Conditions and diseases of global importance affecting child and maternal health such as malnutritution and HIV will be considered in more details. There will also be options to explore sexually transmitted disease, global programes to reduce the burden of childhood disease, childhood disability and childhood accidents from an international perspective.
This unit aims to develop the student’s interest in, as well as knowledge and understanding of:
A number of important overarching issues related to maternal and child health in a global setting, including those of gender and gender equality and the rights of the child will first be introduced. The unit will then move on to consider more specifically, the challenges related to safe motherhood in this context and the approaches which may be taken to address them. Continuing this theme, perinatal care and care of the newborn will then be discussed outlining, in particular, some of the strategies available to minimise perinatal mortality and the risk of vertical HIV transmission in a resource poor setting. Finally the unit highlights a number of the health issues facing children globally, including those of nutrition and childhood injury and considers the implementation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in a resource poor context.
On completion of this unit students will be able to:
This unit will be taught in the form of 3 hour workshops using a variety of teaching methods including lectures, presentations, journal clubs, debates and seminars.
Summative assessment: Group presentation – 30%
1.5 hr examination – 70% (exam length 3 hours total for two module)
Gender, health and gender equity in a global context
World Health Organisation http://www.euro.who.int/document/E92846.pdf
programming: challenges and limitations Social Science and Medicine, 54, 11, 1713-23 (ejournal, online)
why does it matter? International Journal of Epidemiology 32, 652-7
review Health Policy and Planning, 12, 1-18
Child Health & the Rights of the Child
www.unicef.org/crc/index.html
Safe Motherhood
Nutrition
Perinatal Care
Integrated management of childhood illness
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005;90:732
Childhood injury
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/en/