Learning Outcomes:
The broad goal of this module is that students leave the classroom with the ability to understand at the macro- and micro-level how inequality determines health and vice versa.
Learning outcomes for this module aspire to the following goals:
• Demonstrate ability to critically analyse sociological theories of the social determinants of health
• Students should be able to identify and evaluate the commercial determinants of health inqualities.
• Show capacity to critically apply theories and concepts of health and inequality to selected case-studies.
• Exhibit personal, social and communication skills needed to contribute to group project;
• Demonstrate critical writing ability to construct, support and summarise argument that links concepts and cases of
comparative social change.
Indicative Module Content:
The module will be organised around the following themes, which will correspond to lectures, readings and group work:
(1) Introduction- Health and its Social Determinants
(2) Commercial Determinants of Health Inequity
(3) Inequalities in Health
(4) Education, Work and Health
(5) Gender Inequalities and Health
(6) Ethnicity, Racism and Health
(7) Diet, Nutrition and Health
(8) Neighborhoods, Communities and Immigration
(9) Life course, Early Life and Aging
(10) Health from a Global North and South Perspective
(11) Toward a Healthier Future