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Development and Public Health

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Course Type Course Code No. Of Credits
Foundation Elective SHE2ED307 2

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Focus on health is the key principle of understanding development and well-being of individuals. It concerns with physical, mental, and socio-environmental well –being of individuals providing an in-depth understanding of knowledge about diseases and illnesses, prevention and promotion of health and other related issues. It will enable students gaining a wide range of knowledge about human health in different ways and settings.

This course will cover the general concept of health, development, environment and health, health promotion and services. This will further provide a scope for understanding and analysing the real life issues which will be beneficial at the individual, communities or global level.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • To understand the framework and connections between Development and Health
  • To familiarise the rationale of health through past and present experiences
  • To study, analyse, and understand various parameters of health and well-being of any human population
  • To develop curiosity towards Public Health issues and research

COURSE CONTENT

S.No.

Module
  1.  

Introduction to Development and Health
  1.  

Post-Colonial Development and Health
  1.  

Culture, Health and Lifestyle (case studies)
  1.  

Health and Economic Development
  1.  

Food Security and Health
  1.  

Health Promotion and services

INDICATIVE READING LIST

Books

  • Park, K. (2002) Preventive and Social medicine, New Delhi: B Jain Publishers.
  • Ember, C.R. & Ember, M. (2004). Encyclopaedia of medical anthropology. New York: Springer.
  • Phillips, D.R. & Verhasselt, Y. (Eds.). (2003). Health and Development. (Chapter 1 and 20.) New York: Routledge Publication
  • Richman, J. (2003). Holding Public Health Up for Inspection. In Costello, J and Haggart M.(Eds.). Public Health and Society (pp.3-20). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Kunitz, S.J. (2007). Epistemology, Ideology and Epidemiology (Chapter 1: Two revolutions; Chapter 2: Counterrevolution) In Kunitz, S.J. The Health of Populations: General Theories and Practical realities.
  • Ferzacaa, S. (2004). Post-Colonial Development and Public Health. In Ember, C.R. and Melvin Ember (Eds.). Encyclopaedia of Medical Anthropology (184-190pp.). New York: Kluwer Academic /Plenum Publishers.
  • Ramasubban, R. (2008). History of Public Health in Modern India. In Lewis, M.J. & Mc Pherson, K.L. (Eds.). Public Health in Asia and the Pacific (87-105pp.). New York: Routledge.
  • Foster, G.M., and Anderson, B.G., (1978): Medical Anthropology (chapter 3). New York, John Willy and Sons.
  • Castro,A.,& Farmer,P. (2004). Health and Economic Development. In Ember, C.R. & Ember, M. (Eds.). Encyclopaedia of medical anthropology (164-169pp.). New York:Springer.
  • WHO. (2006). Health as a driver of economic development: conceptual framework and related evidence for south-eastern Europe (Chapter 4). In Health and Economic Development in South-Eastern Europe (71-86pp.).
  • Roos, G. (2004). Nutrition and Health. In Ember, C.R., & Ember, M. (Eds.). Encyclopaedia of medical anthropology (178-183pp.). New York: Springer.
  • MacLachlan, M. (2006). Promoting health across cultures (chapter 8). In Culture and Health: A critical Perspective towards Global Health (226-258pp.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  • Carr,S.,Unwin,N., & Pless-Mulloli (2007). Health Promotion (chapter 8). In An Introduction to Public health and epidemiology (83-96pp). New York: OUP.
  • Behnassi,M., Draggan, S., & Yaya,S. (2011).Global Food Insecurity: Rethinking agriculture and rural development paradigm and policy. New York: Springer.

Articles

  • Schauffler, H.H., & Rodriguez, T. (1994). Availability and Utilization of Health Promotion Programs and Satisfaction with Health. Medical Care, 32(12): 1182-1196.
  • Raphael, D., Renwick, R., Brown,I., & Rootman, I.(1996) Quality of life indicators and health: current status and emerging conceptions. Social Indicators Research, 39(1): 65-88.
  • Hare, R.M. (1986). Health. Journal of Medical Ethics 12(4):174-181.
  • Back, D. (1991). Paying for Health. Journal of Medical Ethics, 17(3): 117-123.
  • Gupta, M.D., Desikachari, B.R., Shukla,R.,Somanathan,T.V.,Padmanaban,K. &
  • Datta,K.K.(2010). How Might India’s Public Health Systems Be Strengthened? Lessons from Tamil Nadu. EPW. Vol XLV (10): 47-60.

ASSESSMENT

  • Assessment 1: Take Home (50%) 
  • Assessment 2: End Term Field Report (50%)
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