Governing health equality: policy, interventions and evaluations

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding

• Identify and explain central theories and models of governance, public health interventions and evaluations, including how these pay attention to goals for health equity and equality;
• Describe the range of formal and informal actors and institutions involved in public health governance from global to local levels, including their role, mandates, sources of authority and interdependence;
• Identify principles of management in institutions and organisations working with public health-related issues and describe their importance for public health policy, interventions and evaluations;

Competence and skills

• Independently map how public health work in a specific country is organized, identify challenges and opportunities for universal health coverage and the realization of the right to health;
• Apply conceptual frameworks for policy analysis that provide knowledge about the influence of context and actors on how a policy process and policy content is formulated, and link such analysis to strategic planning for the improvement of the health of populations and specific target groups;
• Apply ethical principles for prioritization, formulate and communicate - to different stakeholders - a strategic plan for the identification, implementation and evaluation of equitable public health interventions;

Judgment and approach

• Contrast different political systems and forms of health policy and interventions with the help of governance theory;
• Critically reflect upon the process and outcome of governance for health equality and equity, including aspects related to the influence of different agendas, evidence and legal frameworks;
• Critically reflect upon the role of ideology, distribution of power and agency for different stakeholders’ ability to influence norms, agenda setting and policy as well as focus for and forms of interventions and their implementation.