Unit name | Population Health and Development |
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Unit code | ARCH30035 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Gibson |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This seminar-based course brings together the most current issues in health, population and society. A unique feature of the course is that it combines both social and biological anthropological approaches to the study of health and well-being across the world. The course is substantive in content, and examines both the causes and consequences of global and individual variation in population, fertility, mortality, health and migration.
Employing a biosocial approach the unit addresses the following questions:
Aims
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1) Explain (with case studies) and critically evaluate different perspectives in debates in population and health.
2) Identify, extract, and use qualitative and quantitative data from a range of academic and development sources.
3) Write and orally present a report that integrates social, biological and demographic data.
4) Discuss how an integrated bio-social anthropology can help policy-makers identify the main priorities for quality of life improvements across the globe.
Weekly 2 hour lectures/ seminars/ presentations
All assessment is summative
UNICEF (Annual) The State of the World's Children http://www.unicef.org/sowc/
World Bank (Annual) World development report www.worldbank.org
Demographic and Health Survey website http://www.dhsprogram.com/
Population Reference Bureau website and factsheets http://www.prb.org/
Sachs, J.D. (2015) The Age of Sustainable Development. New York: Columbia Press
Hahn, R.A. and Inhorn, M.C. (2008) Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society. Oxford: OUP.
Mosse D. (2013) The anthropology of international development. Annu Rev Anthropol, 42: 227-246.