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Global Health Delivery

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Overview

Learn the obstacles facing healthcare delivery, and design a solution for real-world implementation.

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with: An action plan to implement health interventions in your particular context. A biosocial framework to assess how biological and social factors influence the spread of disease. An understanding of the restrictions and challenges facing healthcare delivery. Unlimited access to edX’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.

Syllabus

  • Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
  • Module 1: Introduction to the biosocial
  • Module 2: Why ideas matter: Social theory in global health
  • Module 3: The history of global health and colonial legacy
  • Module 4: Political economy and foreign aid
  • Module 5: The global AIDS movement
  • Module 6: Challenges in healthcare delivery: Lessons from Liberia and Haiti
  • Module 7: Building an effective rural health delivery model in Rwanda
  • Module 8: Critical perspectives on metrics of disease
  • Module 9: The unique challenges of mental health
  • Module 10: Values and global health

Taught by

Anne Becker and Arthur Kleinman

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