General description

The course develops knowledge of critical theories and concepts of public health and an alert attitude to issues in public health.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student is familiar with societal premises of some central discussions within public health research, knows critical public health theories and their conceptual bases, and is able to utilize them in scrutinizing public health issues.

Contents

The articles and the book included in the study materials (listed below) will be discussed in three workshops that focus on most important theoretical implications of these texts. The detailed program of the workshops will be delivered to the enrolled students before the start of the course. All texts will be examined in an examination taking place at the end of the course.

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Evaluation

Study materials

1.  Marmot, Michael (2003). Understanding social inequalities in health. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 46, S9-S23.
2.  Rose, Geoffrey (2001). Sick individuals and sick populations. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30, 427-432.
3.  Hunt, Kate & Emslie, Carol (2001). Commentary: the prevention paradox in lay epidemiology – Rose revisited. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30, 442-446.
4.  Davison, Charlie, Frankel, Stephen & Davey Smith, George (1992). The limits of lifestyle: re-assessing ‘fatalism’ in the popular culture of illness prevention. Social Science & Medicine, 34, 675-685.
5.  Zola, Irving (1972). Medicine as an institution of social control. Sociological Review, 20, 487-503.
6.  Armstrong, David (1995). The rise of surveillance medicine. Sociology of Health and Illness, 17, 393-404.
7. Peterson A. & Lupton D. The new public health. Sage, London 1996.

Further information

Offered every second year (next time in Spring 2016).

Belongs to following study modules

2016–2017

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

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