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This course provides an introduction to health and health sector issues within the context of comparative biological, social, economic and political systems. The course examines inter-sectoral issues (e.g., population, patterns of disease, environmental health and nutrition), as well as principles of comparative health systems structure, financing, and reform. The course emphasizes a comparative national-level focus, however linkages to international issues are introduced. The analytical frameworks are applicable to consideration of health issues and systems in developing, emerging, and developed economies. The course aims to build both students' mastery of concepts and theories in international health, as well as practical skills through diverse classroom approaches including: didactic methods, small group projects, case studies, and proposal writing. This course is intended to serve as the introduction to other courses in the International Health major. Fall and Spring.
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This course provides an introduction to fundamental terminologies and frameworks in international health promotion. In particular, health promotion will be examined in terms of cultural appropriateness, efficacy, and effectiveness with vigorous evaluation methodologies and tools. The course is intended to serve as a primer to address global health morbidity and mortality as well as reducing health disparities with evidence-based approaches.
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This course introduces the general principles, methods, and applications of epidemiology. Fundamental concepts covered in this course include outbreak investigations, measures of disease frequency, standardization of disease rates, study design, measures of association, hypothesis testing, bias, causal inference, disease screening, and ethical issues in Epidemiology studies. Lecture and case studies include applications of the discipline to infectious disease, chronic disease, social behavioral studies, health services research, and health policy.
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Intended for students in Healthcare Management and Policy (HCMP) and International Health (IH) preparing for healthcare practice, management, or policy development, this course will introduce the basic methods of health services research, which provide the scientific foundation for evidence-based healthcare practice and policy. The course will cover the basic health services research designs and their strengths and weaknesses. It will prepare students for identifying relevant literature, evaluating existing studies, and combining evidence from them to guide practice and policy. The course will also introduce basic analytical tools that support quality and performance measurement for healthcare systems improvement efforts. In short, HESY/INTH-180 will prepare you to be an intelligent user of health research in healthcare management and policy settings.
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This course examines the health situation of mothers and children within the global context of socio-cultural factors and international development. The focus is on major causes of morbidity and mortality for women and children, current and emerging health issues, effective strategies and approaches to address them and the response of governments and of the international community in dealing with these issues.
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Credits: 3
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This course presents a comparative analysis of the origin, evolution, structure, and organization of health care systems and the financing and provision of health care services in a number of countries from around the world. The course should expand your understanding of health care by observing important differences rooted in history, culture, social, economic and political factors and implicitly give you a better insight into the structure and financing of US health care and the formulation of US health policy. Basic models of organizing and delivering health care will be presented and how these models have been adopted and adapted by each country, resulting in health service delivery systems that are unique to each country. All countries pursue the same goal of providing quality health services efficiently and equitably to the whole population, yet a comparative analysis shows the many different roads taken towards reaching that goal. Countries learn from each other and continuously seek to improve their health systems, at times by introducing major reforms and at times by fine tuning existing systems. Comparing and exploring different models also provide a better understanding of similarities and differences in the health systems of developed and developing countries.
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International Health Tutorial
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Credits: 3
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Adult education approaches are used as a basis for self directed learning in this seminar as it explores the various factors contributing to global hunger and food insecurity. Cultural, racial, gender, religious and age differences are examined as they pertain to the existence of poverty, hunger and food insecurity with a view to establishing and recognizing human values. This is an interdisciplinary course requiring learning facilitators with expertise in global economics, demography, sociology, food technology, agriculture, emergency food delivery systems, urbanization, natural and man-made disaster relief, anthropology, global infant and maternal health status, epidemiology, and environmental sciences. Students will be encouraged to examine their own reactions to these factors as they relate to marginalized groups, through readings and community projects.
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The course will review large scale international disease control partnerships such as Malaria, TB, Onchocerciasis (River-Blindness). On the research side health partnerships such as the program on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) will be compared with similar programs in the agricultural research arena. The course will analyze the programs from several perspectives and attempt to draw some general conclusions as to modalities for effective large scale disease control programs. These perspectives are: intervention strategies, organizational framework, financing mechanisms, and typology of partnerships. The course will also convey a thorough understanding of the history and current international disease control efforts, and associated political implications from an international perspective.
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This course will examine significant transnational initiatives aimed at improving the availability of pharmaceutical products for diseases that disproportionally affect developing countries. The course will review and assess a range of major recent transnational initiatives to deal with the failure of the international market to develop and deliver pharmaceuticals for so-called neglected tropical diseases. Using the example of antiretroviral drugs for AIDS, it will also review the tension between high prices of patented medications and affordability of life-saving treatment, and will examine the international political and legal context and solutions to-date.
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This course is intended as a course for non-economics majors who wish to strengthen their academic preparation in the principles of economics related to international health and development. Students will learn the principles of macroeconomics and international economics, and apply principles of both microeconomics and macroeconomics to issues such as economic development, income distribution and poverty alleviation, and health sector financing. The course material is intended to serve as a base for consideration of economic aspects of topics covered in other Georgetown international health courses such as: environmental health, food policy and security, demography and population, and trade in health-related goods and services.
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This course introduces the students to the relationship between environmental quality and human health. It focuses on four aspects: the environment as a health conditioning factor; the environmental health impacts of development projects; the construction and management of healthy surroundings; and the technological aspects of the relation between human beings and environmental health.
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This internship introduces the students to international health issues at the community level. The students will be exposed to practical experiences with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that serve multinational populations in the Washington, DC area.
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This internship introduces the students to international health issues at national or international levels. The students will be exposed to practical experiences with national or international organizations which deal with international health and global health issues.
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Credits: 3
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This course reviews and analyzes recent trends in global health, current problems of health, and the influence of economic, population and social trends on health and living conditions in different countries. The student will acquire the basics of descriptive and analytical epidemiology and key health indicators used in international comparisons. This course discusses questions raised by the World Health Organization's World Health Report 1998: Will the world continue to grow healthier in the 21st century, with more diseases conquered by scientific advances and life expectancy extending ever longer, or will new diseases, failing drugs, poverty, and socioeconomic gaps cancel out these gains? How does the health situation of the U.S. compare with other countries? How can the health situation of the population in developed and underdeveloped countries be improved? Looking at major determinants of health and disease in different national contexts, the student will analyze the main transnational factors that influence the transfer of risks to health and the structural conditions that determines one country's vulnerability in a globalized economy.
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This course examines economic, social, cultural, environmental, technological and political dimensions of globalization and how they impact health status, the provision of health care, and international public health. The course will look at what globalization means for both industrialized and developing countries with a focus on opportunities and risks for health. It will also examine in depth the transnational legal frameworks, the international institutions and the civil society players that influence and respond to the globalization process.
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This new course will provide an opportunity for students to become acquainted with the problems related to emergencies and crisis situations and the methods used for preparedness, mitigation and cooperation among countries. Natural or man-made disasters, wars and conflicts, produce situations of emergency with high impact on the life of exposed population groups. There is a disruption of life conditions and the health of the people is, most of the time, immediately affected. There is substantial information on the causes, history, frequency, duration and consequences of the most important disasters, crisis and conflicts in the world, as well as the responses of local, national and international agencies and governments and the mistakes, accidents and lessons learned. Students will analyze information from historical and recent crises, emergencies and disasters using special reading material, videotapes of cases and simulations.
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This practical experience abroad exposes the students to international health issues that other countries face. The students develop studies in collaboration with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), universities, and health ministries. The students work closely with an on-site preceptor.
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Our work in this course is designed to provide a broad overview of the field of population studies. We will get an introduction to basic methods of demographic analysis and explore social science perspectives on population problems. We will take at look at: past and current trends in the growth of the population of the world and of selected regions; components of population change and their determinants; and the social and economic âcauses and consequencesâ of population change.
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