Overview

Power shapes developments in public health. It impacts public health work to: build public trust; engage with public concerns about disease, risk and preparedness; develop new modes of disease surveillance; and connect with non-health agencies and actors with the aim of improving population health. Thus, being able to identify how … For more content click the Read More button below. In this course you will learn to differentiate between: approaches to power that frame power as only ever a problem, a means of constraining people, and; ways of examining how power can both enable and constrain changes in public health action. You will be introduced to social scientific tools developed to analyse the operation of power, and you will learn about fundamental differences between these tools. You will practise using one of these tools to critically examine how power relations shape contemporary public health practice.

Conditions for Enrolment

Prerequisite: Students who are not enrolled in a postgraduate program in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine will need to provide approval from their program authority and the approval of the course convenor to postgrad-sphcm@unsw.edu.au

Delivery

Multimodal - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

Fees

Pre-2019 Handbook Editions

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