Research Project 2: Proposal Design and Dissemination

RATIONALE

The module aims to provide students with the opportunity to explore and understand the factors that influence the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations at a global level, but particularly those within low income countries. In doing so the module engages closely with a broad range of issues related to international health, addressing key social, biological, environmental, political, economic and cultural drivers of health and illness. The literature review carried out as this module’s assessment will form the basis of the student’s final research project.

AIMS

1. To provide students with a critical understanding of key health issues affecting global populations, especially within low-income countries.
2. To explore current and predicted trends in global health behaviours, exposures and outcomes in order to inform current and future public health practice.
3. To engage critically with role of the World Health Organization in helping to improve health outcomes at a global level through the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals.
4. To draw links between local, national and transnational population health in order to view public health as a truly global issue.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of the module, a student will be able to:
1. Using a wide range of sources analyse key public health issues affecting the world, with specific reference to the current and future challenges faced by a low-income country.
2. Critically evaluate outcomes and theoretical positions in relation to global health issues.
3. Understand and critically appraise the WHO’s Sustainable Development Goals and their global implications.
4. Demonstrate an awareness and sensitivity in relation to the interaction and interdependency of global and local health issues, and the role of globalisation.