The social environment we live in is widely recognised as shaping patterns of health and illness within and across populations. In the UK and beyond the importance of understanding the factors, processes and institutions through which these patterns are shaped and (ill)health produced is necessary for developing appropriate policy and systems responses for well-being. This module explores the relationship between the multiple determinants of individual and population health and health inequalities.
Students will be asked to explore health issues from various scholarly perspectives, to reflect critically on the role of determinants in different societies, and to engage in classroom debate on a broad and varied range of scholarly literature.- Module Supervisor: Ewen Speed