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SOBS 646 SYSTEMS OF HEALTH PROVISION IN GHANA

Credits: 
2

The course will present an overview of comparative health systems in developing countries with emphasis on the management of health programmes. It will examine the theoretical perspectives of health care provision with particular attention on the political economy, internationalism and social constructionism. It will also critically analyse social inequalities identifying key barriers to delivering health care. In addition, students will examine the association between health, lifestyle, culture and social structure; medical science and technology as a social construct, social construction of disease, and the discourse of identity and disability; professionalism and health care occupation and the medicalization of life thesis.