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DHS 735

Health Governance and Policy
Name: Health Governance and Policy
Course Number: DHS 735
Credit(s): 3

Course Description

DHS 735 Health Governance and Policy examines global health governance and policy from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, this course explores the combination of health sciences with economic, social, and management sciences in exploring global health and its social, political, economic, and environmental determinants and the role of both State and non-state actors in an increasingly complex global governance scenario.  

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand health governance and policymaking from global and interdisciplinary perspectives.
  • Critically analyze the theoretical bases that connect development, globalization, policymaking, and health.
  • Understand concepts of global health governance and global governance for health, i.e., prioritizing and promoting health through policies and processes in non-health sectors, and map the main actors in today’s global scene.
  • Critically analyze the most salient challenges in health-related global governance and possible future scenarios.

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