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| SYLLABUS |
| Health and Social Change,
6 ECTS Credits |
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COURSE CATEGORY Single Subject Course
MAIN FIELD OF STUDY Health and Society - HOA
SUBJECT AREA
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COURSE CODE |
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HIHD04 |
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| AIM OF THE COURSE |
| The aim of this course is for the students to increase their understanding of both context bound and general processes affecting health during periods of social transition. |
| CONTENTS |
The course focuses on the relations between socio-economic factors, other structural contexts, such as demography, ideology, culture, gender, policy and formal and informal institutions and their impact upon the welfare and health of populations and individuals.
Themes to be elucidated during the course:
Introduction to the history of public health.
Socio-economic factors, health, morbidity and mortality - theories and evidence.
Social stress and self-rated health: Between biography and biology.
Social and cultural capital, human resources and health.
Case 1: 19th Century Sweden: From agrarian to industrial society.
Case 2: Eastern Europe: From state socialism to a western liberal society.
Case 3: South Africa: From apartheid to Rainbow Society. |
| TEACHING |
| Each theme will be studied with the help of a selecton of central texts and list for extensive individual reading. A lecture will introduce the themes followed by a seminar where the students present short papers on key topics within the theme. The students will meet experts from a variety of disciplines, including guest lectures, making them acquainted with historical, social and biomedical theories and qualitative and quantitative methods from an analytical and critical standpoint. The comparative approach will be leading perspective. |
| EXAMINATION |
Active participation in seminars with short discussion papers by individuals and groups.
Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course two times are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.
Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades. |
| ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS |
Eligible for the course are those who have earlier studies at least up to a level corresponding to three years of study at a Swedish university, i.e. approximately equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree at a British university.
Applicants with a professional degree are eligible provided they fulfil the specific admission requirements.
International students who do not have English as their native language must prove proficiency in English by submitting results from a TOEFL test or other internationally recognised tests (TOEFL score at least 213/550).
Applicants who have peviously studied in Sweden must at the start of the programme hold a Kandidatexamen in a relevant field or a professional degree of at least three years of study.
In addition, all applicants must fulfil the specific entrance requirements of in-depth studies for at least one-year in a field relevant for the programme such as sociology, history, philosophy, epidemiology, public health, ethics, including a degree thesis or final paper of approximately ten weeks of study. |
| GRADING |
| The course is graded according to the ECTS grading scale A-F |
| CERTIFICATE |
| Course certificate is issued by the Faculty Board on request. The Department provides a special form which should be submitted to the Student Affairs Division. |
| COURSE LITERATURE |
| The course literature is decided upon by the department
in question. |
| OTHER INFORMATION |
Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus.
The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed. |
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Health and Social Change
Health and Social Change |
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Department responsible
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IHS - Department of Health and Society |
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| Registrar No: 102/05-41 |
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Course Code: HIHD04 |
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Exam codes: see Local Computer System |
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| Subject/Subject Area : Health and Society - HOA |
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| Level |
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Education level |
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Field of Education |
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| D |
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HOA |
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SA |
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The syllabus was approved by the Board of Faculty of Arts and Science 2005-05-09
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