Global Health

Core Courses

Health in its Social Context

This course will aim to enable students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to develop a critical understanding of key issues associated with health and health inequalities within their social and cultural contexts.

Course content:

• Health and the life course
• Social inequalities and health
• Gender and health inequalities
• Risky behaviours
• Media influence on health
• Sexual health
• Health and health behaviours in developing countries
• Health and home / neighbourhood environments
• Social and community influences on health
• Evaluating health impacts of interventions affecting homes and neighbourhoods

Methods of Social Research

The overall aims of the course are to:

• introduce students to a range of research methods commonly used in social research and to provide practical guidance in the use of such methods;
• provide students with an opportunity to acquire skills in research design, quantitative and qualitative data collection, and in data analysis;
• enable students to think critically about the uses of sociological research and the social, political and institutional contexts within which it takes place; and
• give students a grounding in research methods which will be useful for their dissertation.