Last modified: 02 Dec 2025 09:16
This course focuses on global disease burden patterns, associated risk factors, drivers and responses. Specific diseases and health issues will be discussed in the socio-economic, political, and environmental context, while considering the appropriateness and adequacy of global health responses. Topics include communicable and non-communicable diseases, injuries, and global health risk factors and drivers.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of major global health issues and the skills to appraise approaches to reduce disease burden critically. Specific diseases and health issues will be discussed in the socio-economic, political, and environmental context while considering the appropriateness and adequacy of global health responses. Topics include communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as maternal and child health risk factors and drivers.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 25 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 25 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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Oral examination via online platform assessing learning outcomes for the whole course. |
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| Factual | Remember | Describe demographic, epidemiologic and nutritional transitions and how each relates to the other |
| Conceptual | Understand | Understand the environmental influences such as climate change, conflict and migration on the health of populations |
| Conceptual | Apply | Demonstrate the application of knowledge to specific scenarios to devise appropriate solutions to global health challenges |
| Factual | Remember | Describe the global burden of disease in relation to maternal, newborn and child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Critically appraise the global policy responses to current global health challenges |
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