INTERNATIONAL HEALTH POLICY

PHE5IPO

2014

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject, students learn about institutions and frameworks for international health policy national health development and global health governance, improving health services, making and implementing policies in a global context, and health policy changes and challenges. This subject will be taught at the City Campus, and will be provided in block mode.

Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Evelyne de Leeuw

Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Exchange Students: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: One of PHE4POL, PHE5POL, PHE4HPA or PHE5HPA

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers.Students will be expected to be familiar with basic frameworks of public health policy before commencing the course.

Learning resources

Readings

Resource Type	Title	Resource Requirement	Author and Year	Publisher
Readings	Making sense of global health governance	Prescribed	Buse, Hein & Drager (eds). 2009.	PALGRAVE MCMILLAN.
Readings	Text book of international health	Prescribed	Birn, Pillay & Holtz. 2009.	OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

City, 2014, Semester 2, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: 80

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Evelyne de Leeuw

Class requirements

Tutorial
Six 1.5 hours tutorial per study period and delivered via online.
"Reflective tutorials"

Tutorial
Six 3.0 hours tutorial per study period and delivered via face-to-face.

Lecture
Six 2.0 hours lecture per study period and delivered via online.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	%
one 1,000-word assignment	Book review	25
one 2,500-word assignment	Policy analysis	50
one class group presentation	Small groups of up to five, topic to be decided on a current issue	25