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PTY-30037 - Module Specification
School of Allied Health Professions
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 21 December 2024

PTY-30037 - Global Healthcare Matters
Coordinator: Badrieh Al Abbad Room: N/A
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
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Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module forms part of the BSc (Hons) Rehabilitation Science programme at Keele University, an innovative, integrated programme which prepares the graduate for further study or employment in a health and social care setting.
The module offers students a broad-based introduction to key concepts related to global health and social care. Within the module students will explore, analyse and critically evaluate aspects of current global healthcare issues and priorities. Their impact and implications for policy makers, service providers and the general population will also be explored. The module will use a range of learning and teaching approaches to enable students to analyse a wide variety of information, reflect upon key issues and propose critically reasoned solutions. Students will have the opportunity to select and explore one aspect of global healthcare in depth.

Aims
This module aims to introduce students to aspects of health and social care in the context of both national and international healthcare economies.

Intended Learning Outcomes

explore and appraise specific national and international healthcare structures, discuss their respective strengths and limitations and to hypothesise future challenges: 1
justify measures of global health and their application in a given population: 1
critique current specific global healthcare challenges, identifying priorities and initiatives: 1
explain theories around the social determinants in global health/inequalities in health.: 1

Study hours

56 tutor led hours which include
~ 21 hours of lectures,
~ 12 hours of workshops, seminars, tutorials
~ 3 hours of assessment preparation
~ 20 hours of directed study
94 hours of independent study by students to meet the assignment brief.
~ 70 hours of preparation for lectures and seminars
~ 24 hours of preparation for assessment and writing

School Rules

Successful completion of a minimum of 105 credits of the BSc (Hons) Rehabilitation Science at Level 5, normally at Keele University.

Description of Module Assessment

1: Assignment weighted 100%
A 2,100 word written assignment on a specific aspect of global health


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Last Updated: 21 December 2024