INTHE4019 – Fundamentals of International Community Health
Course description
Course content
The course focus on core concepts related to international community health. The emphasis is on understanding and appraising global community health challenges and examining how these relates to individual, societal, cultural and environmental changes. The course seeks to explore the role of various actors and evaluate strategies and programs aiming at improving community health.
The course is divided into the following six-week modules which focuses on relevant global community health themes:
- Health System and Interventions
- Health and the Environment
- Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, and Medicines
- Metrics and Evidence
- Migration and Health
Learning outcome
Knowledge
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:?
- Describe concepts, challenges, and institutions of relevance in global community health. ?
- Outline the elements and functions of health systems. ?
- Explain the interrelationship of health and ecology. ?
- Summarize the principles of disease surveillance, disease prevention and control, and health promotion.?
- Relate the practices of metrical evaluation as a source of data and evidence in informing global community health approaches. ? ?
- Explain the social and historical lives of drugs, pharmaceuticals, and medicines.?
- Illustrate the ways in which migration affects health and disease. ?
Skills?
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Apply essential concepts of global community health.?
- Assess the distributions of major global health challenges and their cultural, social, economic and environmental determinants.
- Evaluate the role of major actors and institutions in the arena of global community health.?
- Analyse the main structures of health systems and their role in achieving health equity.?
- Critically discuss the impact of climate and environmental change on health. ?
- Appraise the main approaches to disease prevention and control, and health promotion measures.?
- Critically discuss the process of data production, metrics and evidence.?
- Evaluate global drug use cultures and the role of policies and markets on access to essential and safe pharmaceuticals. ??
- Explain the interrelations between migration and health inequities.?
General competences
After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Effectively communicate about global community health challenges in an interdisciplinary and diverse classroom.??
Admission to the course
This course is only available for students at the following master programme:
International Community Health (master's two years)
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
Overlapping courses
- 7.5 credits overlap with INTHE4013 – Fundamentals of International Community Health Part I (discontinued).
- 7.5 credits overlap with INTHE4014 – Fundamentals of International Community Health Part II (discontinued).
Teaching
The course consists of lectures and seminars. In the seminars, the students do exercises and assignments related to the course.To be able to take the exam, you must complete the following requirements for the course:
- 80% attendance in the seminars.
- One compulsory task per week (oral or written).
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Thesis project
We recommend you start thinking about which topic you want for your master project already now, as it is important that you have settled a topic and supervisor before January. You find a step-by-step description about how to go about finding a topic and supervisor as well as planning your project at our webpage ICH Master project - all about planning.
Examination
Written school examination
To be able to take the exam, you must complete the following requirements for the course:
- 80% attendance in the seminars
- One compulsory task per week (oral or written).
Examination and grading at The Faculty of Medicine.
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed.
Language of examination
The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.