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Bridging healthcare and society

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Course Summary

This course explores the complex relationship between healthcare and society, examining the ways in which social, economic, and political factors impact healthcare access, delivery, and outcomes.

Key Learning Points

Gain an understanding of the social, economic, and political factors that impact healthcare systems
Examine the role of healthcare professionals in addressing healthcare disparities
Explore global healthcare systems and their unique challenges

Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have

Healthcare Administrator
- USA: Average salary: $98,350 per year
- India: Average salary: ₹6,00,000 per year
- Spain: Average salary: €43,000 per year
Public Health Educator
- USA: Average salary: $51,530 per year
- India: Average salary: ₹3,00,000 per year
- Spain: Average salary: €25,000 per year
Community Health Worker
- USA: Average salary: $40,360 per year
- India: Average salary: ₹2,00,000 per year
- Spain: Average salary: €15,000 per year

Learning Outcomes

Develop a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between healthcare and society
Analyze the impact of social, economic, and political factors on healthcare access, delivery, and outcomes
Examine strategies for addressing healthcare disparities and promoting health equity

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic knowledge of healthcare systems and policies
Familiarity with social, economic, and political factors affecting healthcare

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

Self-paced
Online

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Description

In contemporary societies healthcare is a key social institute that addresses the issues of maintenance and improvement of citizens’ health. While population health is largely produced outside of healthcare settings themselves, the functioning of healthcare, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness, injury, and other impairments, is essential for people’s wellbeing. Yet, healthcare can be and often is insufficiently accessible, responsive, and efficient for different members of society. How can healthcare provision and society be bridged?

Through the exploration of a combination of theoretical and practical perspectives, this online course highlights the necessity of a dialogue and collaboration between healthcare professionals, patients, and the public at large. Course participants will critically explore challenges posed by disjunctures between healthcare and society, analyze both benefits and unintended consequences of bridging the two, and propose ways to accomplish the bridging in practice of healthcare provision. After completion of this course you will be able to: 1. Recognize disjunctures between healthcare provision and society 2. Be aware of consequences of disjunctures between healthcare provision and society 3. Identify opportunities for bridging healthcare provision and society, using a biosocial approach to health 4. Analyze cases of disjunctures between healthcare provision and society, and propose opportunities for bridging 5. Recognize the historical trends of scientification, professionalization, and medicalization, in the relations between medicine, health care, and society. This course was developed by a consortium of five universities: Maastricht University, National Research Tomsk State University, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, and Siberian State Medical University within the framework of BIHSENA project. BIHSENA stands for “Bridging Innovations, Health and Societies: Educational capacity building in the Eastern European Neighbouring Areas”. BIHSENA project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This course reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Outline

Introduction to the course “Bridging health care and society”
Welcome to the “Bridging health care and society” course
About the universities
About the authors

Module 1. Why bridging?
1.1. Brief history of modern medicine from 18th century. Professionalization of medicine
1.2. Case - Professionalization of medicine and quality of care
1.3. Standardizing healthcare practice
1.4 Case - Standardization and individual approach
1.5 Review
Disjunctions
Professionalization of medicine
Assessment 1. Professionalisation of medicine and quality of care
Standardizing healthcare practice
The medicalization of life
Assessment 2. Standardization and individual approach

Module 2. Bridging healthcare professionals and patients
2.1. Illustration of a disjuncture between medical professionals’ and patients’ approaches to health and medical help
2.2. Construction of medical authority
2.3. Contemporary challenges to medical profession
2.4. Lay perspectives and lay expertise in medicine
2.5. Review
About Part 2.
Trust in healthcare encounters
Adherence in medical encounters
Construction of medical authority
Contemporary challenges to medical profession
Lay perspectives and lay expertise in medicine
Assessment 1. Medical professionals and patients
Trust in healthcare encounters
Adherence in medical encounters

Module 3. Bridging healthcare services and population groups
3.1. Illustration of a disjuncture between healthcare services and population groups
3.2. How to understand access to healthcare?
3.3. Barriers to healthcare
3.4. Resocializing health care
3.5. Review
Reading Healthcare-seeking behavior
Case Disparities in health care
Case Cervical cancer screening
Healthcare-seeking behavior
How to understand access to healthcare?
Barriers to healthcare
Resocializing health care
Assessment. Case - Cervical cancer screening

Module 4. Bridging public health and public
4.1. Illustration of a disjuncture between public health and the public
4.2. The rise of the notion of risk in public health
4.3. Politics of health promotion 1. Ottawa charter and the new health promotion
4.4. Politics of health promotion 2. The new health promotion in the neoliberal climate
4.5. Guest lecture by prof Klasien Horstman “Making health public”
4.6. Review
Good evidence for public health
Case - Mixed media project Bianca
The notion of risk in public health
Good evidence for public health
Ottawa charter and the new health promotion
The new health promotion in the neoliberal climate
Assessment. Case - Mixed media project Bianca

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The course offers a comprehensive overview of the healthcare system and its impact on society.

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Engaging and informative course material
Great instructors who are knowledgeable and engaging
Great opportunity to learn from a diverse range of perspectives

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Some students found the workload to be overwhelming
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