Unit name | Population Health and Development |
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Unit code | ARCHM0079 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
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.
5) Assess and challenge the theoretical frameworks applied to population health, and engage in current debates in national, and global contexts.
6) Respond to questions or problems by presenting an independent judgement in an appropriate style and at a high level of complexity.
Weekly lectures and discussion groups including two afternoons of oral presentations, supported by self-directed activities
All assessment is summative
One essay/situational report, independently devised and researched, of ca. 4000 words (60% ILOs 1-6).
One 20 minute presentation on an independently-researched topic, distinct from that of the essay (40% ILOs 1-6).
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.