TL00EY62 Health, Culture and Society (3 cr)
Cooperation network course
Network: Finnish University Partnership for International Development
Available for: Doctoral studies, Master's students, Bachelor's students and Bachelor's and Master's students
This course is offered through the Network for Unipid. These studies are available for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree students studying in the University of Jyväskylä.
Description
• Introduction to medical anthropology as a discipline
• Culture, health and illness (theory, experiences and examples from different cultural settings)
• Cultura roles of health care professionals, healers, and patients
• Culture-bound mental health
• Gender and health
• Health and health perceptions of subcultures and minority population groups
• Conflicting concept of spiritual health
Learning outcomes
In this course student adopts basic understanding on cultural approach to health; and how to conceptualize health problems in a variety of cultural settings.
Objectives:
Objective is to explore Medical Anthropology. Focus is on the significance of culture and society on health. The course covers issues such as how health, illness and suffering are perceived; why certain health behaviors are being practiced in a given community; what kind of traditional features can be seen in health care across different parts of the world; and how the concept of integrative medicine has emerged. Culture becomes an eye-glass through which a medical anthropologist sees these phenomena in a society.
Through the subject of medical anthropology a bilateral connection develops between general public and the scientific community. It can contribute to better understanding of public health objectives from the societal point of view, and it may in part translate scientific knowledge into effective practice at the community level.
Generic skills: ethics, internationality, sustainability and responsibility.
Additional information
Offering data: Master of Science in Public Health degree program (MPH) of UEF; International exchange students at UEF. The course is organized in collaboration with UniPID.
Number of participants: 15 to 40 (MPH students will be prioritized, remaining from exchange students on first come basis)
Responsible teacher: Sohaib Khan, PhD, Assistant Professor of International Health, sohaib.khan@uef.fi
Further information: Mari Aalto, Teaching Coordinator, mari.aalto@uef.fi
Time and location: Spring semester, Remote teaching
Description of prerequisites
No prerequisites