Lecture

Global Health Issues: Library Intervention

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HUM-125(b): Health B: Innovation, Equity, Sustainability

Le cours propose une approche interdisciplinaire des grands enjeux de santé mondiale, axée sur les innovations biomédicales, la durabilité, les médicaments, la santé mentale et les politiques de santé. Il développe des compétences de recherche critiques es ...

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This lecture covers global health issues such as health inequality, access to care, and the two-tier medicine system. It emphasizes the importance of clearly delimiting the subject, starting the research, and isolating concepts. The lecture also discusses the significance of harnessing scientific resources, diversifying and validating sources, and ensuring the freshness and validity of information. It provides guidance on finding information, citing sources, and managing references, with a focus on utilizing the EPFL library resources. The lecture highlights the State of Health Inequality report for Indonesia and the role of district and provincial governments in managing health services. It also touches upon the importance of citing sources correctly and provides tools like Zotero for collecting and managing bibliographies.

Instructors (4)

Thomas David

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Joel Swai Praz Courses Health B: Innovation, Equity, Sustainability HUM-125(b) The course provides an interdisciplinary examination of key global health challenges, focusing on biomedical innovations, pharmaceuticals, sustainability, mental health, and health policies. It offer a critical skillset to engineering students approaching these complex health challenges.

Neeraj Dhar

Delphine Preissmann

Teaching & PhD Courses Brain, mind and society HUM-256 This course aims to address topics related to research on brain causes of human actions. The course will introduce to fundamental concepts in psychology, cognitive and social neurosciences and the links between brain and mental illness. Health A: Innovation, Equity, Sustainability HUM-125(a) The course provides an interdisciplinary examination of key global health challenges, focusing on biomedical innovations, pharmaceut

Luca Chiapperino

Expertise Social Studies of Science; Science and Technology Studies; Public Health Ethics; Applied Philosophy; Sustainability Transitions Teaching & PhD Courses Health A: Innovation, Equity, Sustainability HUM-125(a) The course provides an interdisciplinary examination of key global health challenges, focusing on biomedical innovations, pharmaceuticals, sustainability, mental health, and health policies. It offer a critical skillset to engineering students approaching these complex health ch

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Related concepts (27)

Universal health care

Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care. It is generally organized around providing either all residents or only those who cannot afford on their own, with either health services or the means to acquire them, with the end goal of improving health outcomes.

Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry, audiology, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic training, and other health professions all constitute health care.

Social inequality

Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons. It poses and creates a gender gap between individuals that limits the accessibility that women have within society. The differentiation preference of access to social goods in the society is brought about by power, religion, kinship, prestige, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and class.

Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With around 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country.

Global governance

Global governance refers to institutions that coordinate the behavior of transnational actors, facilitate cooperation, resolve disputes, and alleviate collective action problems. Global governance broadly entails making, monitoring, and enforcing rules. Within global governance, a variety of types of actors – not just states – exercise power. Governance is thus broader than government. Global governance began in the mid-19th century. It became particularly prominent in the aftermath of World War I, and more so after the end of World War II.

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