Health equality and the right to health

Target group:

This course, integral to our International Master of Public Health program, holds significant relevance not only for students enrolled in the program but also for students and professionals across diverse disciplines.

The aim of the course:

The course offers valuable insights into the factors contributing to health disparities. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the course promotes an awareness of the intricate nature of these inequalities and delves into actionable strategies aimed at aimed at reducing them.

What will I learn as a student in this course:

It gives a critical understanding of how different concepts, theories, and frameworks add to our understanding of health inequalities but also affect our view on potential action. Concepts such as power, vulnerability, gender, behavior, politics, and commercial determinants of health will be explored. In addition, the course also aims to provide you with a fundamental comprehension of how the lens of human rights and the right to health contribute to understanding of, and action on health inequalities. The goal isn't to make you experts in every aspect covered. Instead, it provides a glance into the challenges, encouraging a critical approach to health inequalities, a foundation that is essential for understanding and working with inequalities in health.

How is the course planned:

Pedagogically, the course has a student-centered learning approach. It emphasizes active participation both in and outside the classroom, encouraging students to integrate their own experiences into the learning process. Through reflection, self-assessment, joint discussions, and interactive workshops, students engage deeply with the course material.

Lectures are given in English, but students who take the course as a freestanding course may submit assignments in Swedish.