Course Outline:
With increasing globalisation, the practice of medicine in the UK requires an awareness of international health issues, of different disease pathologies and different cultural responses to disease. Many doctors spend part of their training abroad, and international collaboration is a pre-requisite of the highest quality medical research. In response to GMC encouragement to improve the undergraduate teaching of International Health, we have developed a one-year intercalated International Health BSc for medical students.
This course will follow similar lines to the successful courses already established in Leeds and UCL but will be tailored to reflect the particular extensive international expertise already present in Bristol University. Bristol students have been involved at every stage of the course development (the original proposal was an SSC project!) and the course has been developed specifically for intercalators.
Course Modules:
6 taught modules and a project over one academic year.
Autumn Term
Health and the Global Burden of Disease
Health Policy in an international context
Inequalities in health, poverty and development
Spring Term
Conflict, migration and human rights
Maternal and Child Health
International Disease
Summer Term
Project report
Unit 1: Health and the Global Burden of Disease
This unit will examine the current patterns of health and illness in different parts of the world. It will highlight continuing inequalities in morbidity and mortality and explore their links with wider economic and social processes. Structural determinants of health will be reviewed through the use of case studies including HIV/AIDS, mental health, pharmaceuticals and tobacco
Unit 2: Health Policy in an international context
This module focuses on health policy in an international context. The unit explores differences between countries in reasonability for health care including finance and delivery. There will be an emphasis on the ways in which health and health care systems in different countries have been shaped by the processes of internationalisation and global restructuring. The unit will conclude with an examination of the policy options for reducing inequalities in global health
Unit 3: Inequalities in health, poverty and development
This module focuses on the links between poverty, health and development. Students will examine and critically analyse the indicators of social and economic policy (such as GNP and HDI) and the affects of policy on health. After an introduction to definitions of poverty, the causes, and ways of tackling poverty will be explored with particular reference to measures shown to improve life expectancy. The unit will conclude by looking at inequalities in health experience relating to gender, disability, class, and ethnicity.
Unit 4: Maternal and Child Health
In many low-income countries children represent 50% of the population. Child health is intricately bound with maternal health. This unit will explore global inequalities in child and maternal health and look at initiatives to try to redress the balance. Conditions and diseases of global importance affecting child and maternal health such as malaria, HIV, and malnutrition will be considered in more detail and childhood accidents and disability will be looked at from an international perspective.
Entry Requirements:
Course commencing October 2007 for intercalating medical students in their 3rd, 4th or 5th year.
How do I get a place on the course?
Applications should be sent to:
There will be a maximum of 20 places on the 2007-8 course. External students are also invited to apply. Potential applicants will be asked to complete a form detailing relevant experience/interest, as well as academic performance.
Contact:
Contacts:
Course Coordinators: Prof Alan Emond and Dr Clare Hamer:
clare.hamer@bristol.ac.uk
Student representatives: David Biles and Rob Hughes:
db2065@bristol.ac.uk
Hughes.rob@gmail.com
Applications should be sent to:
There will be a maximum of 20 places on the 2007-8 course. External students are also invited to apply. Potential applicants will be asked to complete a form detailing relevant experience/interest, as well as academic performance.
Contacts: Programme Director: Ms Liz Anderson, e.j.Anderson@Bristol.ac.uk
Student representative 2006-7: Miss Mariam Latif, ml4717@bristol.ac.uk
Applications should be sent to:
Liz Anderson, Programme Director International Health BSc Centre for Child and Adolescent Health Hampton House Cotham Hill Bristol BS6 6JS
