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File How are You?

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GLOBAL HEALTH - COUSE DESCRIPTION, SYLLABUS AND RESOURCES Page MPH 429: GLOBAL HEALTH COURSE

COURSE ID: https://elearn.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/course/view.php?id=11868

ENROLLMENT CODE: mph429

   MPH - 429: Global Health

  • To know the definition of global health, the global context of public health, key concepts in relation to global health, etc.
  • To know about health system, health system framework, health financing, functions of health financing system, unproductive health budgeting, source of health care.
  • To learn the definition of gender and sex, gender issues on health, global feature of gender based violence and violence against women, impact of violence, cost of violence.
  • To know about global status of maternal and child mortality and morbidity, MDG, safe mother hood components and initiatives.
  • To learn about global burden of malnutrition, death for malnutrition, cause of malnutrition, strategies to improve the nutritional status etc.
  • To know about HIV/ AIDS as global public health issues, effects of HIV/AIDS, affecting countries, response of WHO and other international organization to fight HIV/AIDS etc.
  • To gain mainly the knowledge about global funding and the role of different international organizations in addressing global health problems etc.

File MPH SYLLABUS

MPH Syllabus. For your reading.

File MPH 429 Global Health Handbook and assessment Guidelines

MPH 429 Course Syllabus. You must read.

File GLOBAL HEALTH PHOTOBOOK

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Session - 1: Introduction to Global Health File Lesson Plan 1: Introduction to Global Health

Learning Outcomes: 

 What course goals or outcomes will this session address? 

  • Introduction to global health
  • Key issues in global health
  • Interpret the key issues in global health

URL Video: What is Global Health - Lancet


Please watch this video, and list 3 key issues on global health.

URL Social Determinants of Health
URL Video - Global Health Threats - WHO's Perspectives
Session - 12: International cooperation for health and well being File International Health Agencies
Additional Reference Materials Page Recommended Reading

1.      Birn, A.E., Pillay, Y. & Holtz, T. (2009). Textbook of international health: Global health in a dynamic world, 3rd Ed.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2.      Easterly, W.R. &Birdsall, N. (2008). Reinventing foreign aid. Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
3.      Easterly, W.R. (2007). The white man's burden: Why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York: Penguin Press.
4.      Ehiri, J.E. (ed.) (2009). Maternal and child health: Global challenges, programs, and policies. New York: Springer-Verlag.
5.      Frost, L.J. & Reich, M.R. (2008). Access: How do good health technologies get to poorpeople in poor countries? Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.