UWA Handbook 2023

Minor Overview

About this minor

The rapid pace of globalisation in the past decades has been accompanied by increasing integration of countries, health systems, and economies. Health issues and challenges transcend geographical and political borders, with spillover effects into economic and political systems. The COVID-19 pandemic is only one of a number of major global health challenges that require multidisciplinary perspectives as well as cross-country and inter-sector collaboration to address. The global health minor will also focus on the impact of other key transnational determinants such as obesity and urbanisation and how these global issues affect both domestic health disparities as well as cross-border issues. The Global Health minor aims to provide multidisciplinary knowledge that will allow a broad understanding of global health issues and challenges and the efforts to tackle them. Furthermore, students who complete the Global Health minor will be able to critically analyse global health issues from various angles, the success stories and describe the barriers that still need to be overcome to address current and future global health challenges. For students taking a minor which shares units with their other unit sets (majors or minors): in order for minors to be recognised on academic and graduation documents, students may only have a maximum of one unit overlapping between their unit sets.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) Describe current and emerging global health issues and challenges from multidisciplinary perspectives; (2) Demonstrate an understanding of global health issues and challenges specific to regions or countries; (3) Demonstrate an understanding of global health issues and challenges and how they relate to other sectors outside of health; (4) Critically analyse global health issues from multi-disciplinary perspectives; and (5) Describe the barriers to achieving global health priorities and challenges.

Incompatibility

MJD-PPHLH Public Health;

Units