This course will provide you with an overview of the most important health challenges facing the world today. You will gain insight into how challenges have changed over time, we will discuss the likely determinants of such changes and examine future projections. Successful international strategies and programs promoting human health will be highlighted and global health governance structures will be mapped and the role of the key actors explored.
An Introduction to Global Health
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An Introduction to Global Health
University of Copenhagen
Informações sobre o curso
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346 classificações
Habilidades que você terá
Maternal Child HealthReproductive HealthPublic HealthCommunity Health
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Semana
1Defining and Measuring Global Health
Welcome to the first module of this global health course. In the first lesson we will introduce you to the overall concepts and definitions of global health and examine the question "What are the biggest global health challenges?". You'll get to hear some answers from fellow learners from around the world, and also have an opportunity to join the conversation here in the course discussion forums. We also have an interview with Professor Susan Whyte about the impact of health policy on a population's health. The second lesson deals with the central tools needed to measure global health burden. Together these two lessons will form the basis on which all the other topical modules are built. Enjoy!
8 vídeos (Total de 97 min), 3 leituras, 1 teste
8 videos
1.2: Voxpop - What is the biggest global health challenge? (Your fellow students)1min
1.3: How Changing Policies Impact Population's Health (S Whyte)15min
2.1: Epidemiological and Demographic Transition (DW Meyrowitsch)18min
2.2: Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) (DW Meyrowitsch)9min
2.3: Global Burden of Diseases (DW Meyrowitsch)19min
2.4: Disease-specific Risk Factors, part 1 (IC Bygbjerg)9min
2.5: Disease-specific Risk Factors, part 2 (IC Bygbjerg)12min
3 leituras
Course Information10min
Suggested readings and resources10min
Suggested readings and resources10min
1 exercício prático
Defining and Measuring Global Health20min
Semana
2Infectious Diseases
The second module of this course is focussed on infectious diseases. Lesson 3 will introduce you to the concept of infectious diseases and their relation to poverty and development, and lesson 4 will go through three prominent examples of infectious diseases that are still unfinished agendas in large parts of the world.
5 vídeos (Total de 63 min), 2 leituras, 2 testes
5 videos
3.2: Infectious Diseases, part 2 (IC Bygbjerg)7min
4.1: Infectious Diarrheal Diseases (S Tulsani)12min
4.2: Malaria - The Transition (L Hviid)14min
4.3: HIV in Global Health (J Lundgren)15min
2 leituras
Suggested readings and resources10min
Suggested readings and resources10min
2 exercícios práticos
Online Activity: Infectious Diseases and Development Goals8min
Infectious Diseases20min
Semana
3Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries
In the third module we'll have a closer look at non-communicable diseases, in short NCDs, and examine the forces that are behind the global epidemic rise of NCDs such as diabetes. The module also includes a lesson about mental health and injuries - two major global health challenges that are often ignored when dealing with NCDs.
7 vídeos (Total de 91 min), 2 leituras, 3 testes
7 videos
5.2: The Global Burden of Disease - The Rise of NCDs (AR Demaio)15min
5.3: Determinants and Drivers of NCDs (AR Demaio)8min
5.4: Diabetes (V Narayan)17min
5.5: Joint Risk Factors (IC Bygbjerg)14min
6.1: Mental Health in a Global Perspective (M Muijen)11min
6.2: Pesticides and Self Harm in Sri Lanka (M Eddleston)10min
2 leituras
Suggested readings and resources10min
Suggested readings and resources10min
3 exercícios práticos
Online Activity: Air Pollution4min
Online Activity: Road Traffic Injuries4min
Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries20min
Semana
4Maternal and Child Health
This fourth module deals with maternal and child health. The first focus will be on the important, and at times controversial, topic of sexual and reproductive health and rights, often shortened to SRHR. This is followed by a short lesson focussed on child health.
6 vídeos (Total de 70 min), 3 leituras, 1 teste
6 videos
7.2: Components of Sexual and Reproductive Health (BL Sørensen)18min
7.3: The Role of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (E Dupont)12min
7.4: Abortion Stigma (T Gammeltoft)9min
8.1: mHealth in Reproductive and Child Health (S Lund)10min
8.2: Continuum of Care (C Schmiegelow)10min
3 leituras
Suggested readings and resources10min
Suggested readings and resources10min
Join our challenge: Help us reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)!10min
1 exercício prático
Maternal and Child Health14min
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Melhores avaliações
por AA•Jan 13th 2017
Very interesting course. The classes discuss broad topics with excellent specialists in different fields. I do recommend this course to anyone interested in Public Health.
por RR•Mar 19th 2018
I really learnt alot on introduction to global health, from learning the greatest challenges in healthcare to Global burden of diseases. The course was quite helpful.
Instrutores
Flemming Konradsen
Professor, DirectorCopenhagen School of Global Health
Sobre University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest University in Denmark - founded in 1479, and with over 38,000 students and more than 9,000 employees. The purpose of the University is to conduct research and provide education to the highest academic level. Based in Denmark's capital city it is one of the top research institutions in Europe.
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