2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

NUFF5105M Policy for Health and Development

15 creditsClass Size: 40

Module manager: Ricky Kalliecharan
Email: r.kalliecharan@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 01 Oct to 31 Oct (1mth) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module interrogates current debates around health, equity and development. It introduces critical perspectives and questions some of the ideologies and assumptions lying behind health policies and development approaches. Through an analysis of key health policy issues, the module explores the complex, messy and political world of health policy making and planning.

Objectives

This module introduces the students to current debates around health, equity and development and encourages them to question some of the ideologies and assumptions lying behind health policies and development approaches.

Through an analysis of key health policy issues, the students will explore the complex, messy and political world of health policy making and planning.

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- demonstrate a critical understanding of some of the ideologies and assumptions lying behind health policies and programmes and development approaches
- demonstrate a critical awareness of topical issues in international health policy
- critically analyse health policies, policy making environments and processes, and the role of different actors in health policy making, from an international perspective
- demonstrate an understanding of gendered aspects in health policy, planning and development.

Learning outcomes
Knowledge of models of health and development, and frameworks for policy analysis will allow students to:
a) analyse health policies
b) examine the role that different stakeholders at local, national and international level, might play in promoting health.

Skills outcomes
Ability to apply policy analysis frameworks.

Syllabus

The module will include the following topics:

- Models of health and development
- Health, development and globalisation
- Health policy analysis and frameworks
- International policy and development actors
- International aid: donors, priorities and politics
- Equity and human rights approaches to health policy, planning and development
- Case studies
- Mental health
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Governance and corruption
- Climate change.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Class tests, exams and assessment	1	2.00	2.00
Seminar	8	3.00	24.00
Independent online learning hours			8.00
Private study hours			116.00
Total Contact hours			26.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

- Preparing for, and conducting assignments: 68 hours
- Involvement in module specific web-based discussion forum: 8 hours (1 hour x 8 seminars)
- Reading prior to and following each seminar: 48 (6 hours x 8 seminars).

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Observation of class discussion, presentations and group work - verbal feedback given by lecturer.
- Monitoring of discussion in module-specific web-based forum
- Assignments - written feedback given by marker.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2,000 words	65.00
Presentation	Group verbal presentation 30 minutes total. 1000 words equivalent	30.00
Reflective log	200 words	5.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 09/05/2024 11:42:15

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