Health and health care systems
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | 3500-FAKANG-HHCS |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: |
14.2
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Nazwa przedmiotu: | Health and health care systems |
Jednostka: | Wydział Socjologii |
Grupy: | |
Punkty ECTS i inne: |
(brak)
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Język prowadzenia: | angielski |
Rodzaj przedmiotu: | języki obce |
Założenia (opisowo): | A communicative command of English. |
Tryb prowadzenia: | w sali |
Skrócony opis: |
Health practices and health care systems undergo rapid changes that accompany changing cultural and economic patterns, challenges such as climate change and new emerging diseases, as well as technological innovations, which pose for medical practice both a promise and a source of growing expectations. During the course, we shall look at health care and health care policies in different contexts and on different levels of governance. |
Pełny opis: |
Health practices and health care systems undergo rapid changes that accompany changing cultural and economic patterns, challenges such as climate change and new emerging diseases, as well as technological innovations, which pose for medical practice both a promise and a source of growing expectations. During the course, we shall look at health care and health care policies in different contexts and on different levels of governance. 1. Diversity of modern health policies 2. Health care systems and welfare regimes 3. Different policy and health care governance (local, national, European, global) 4. Sociology of medical professions 5. Social movements, advocacy, and lobbying in health care 6. Politics of pharmaceutical research 7. The promise and challenges of economisation |
Literatura: |
F. Collyer (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine; W.C. Cockerham (red.), The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology; B. Hinote i J.A. Wasserman, Social and behavioral Science for Health Professionals; D. Mechanic & D.A. Rochefort, Comparative Medical Systems; L. Panitch & C. Leys (eds.), Morbid Symptoms: health under capitalism; R. Wilkinson & K. Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone; S. Brownlee, Overtreated: why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer; A. Kleinmann, Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry. |
Efekty uczenia się: |
K_W01 Knows and understands basic concepts of various sub-domains of sociology (e.g. sociology of family, health, work, religion, economy, education, etc) K_W03 Is aware of ongoing theoretical and methodological disputes conducted in modern sociology; is reflective and critical of various positions K_W05 Has in-depth knowledge about regional, domestic and international institutions and the problem of European integration K_W16 Has in-depth knowledge about major international and domestic sociological research pertaining to selected areas of social reality or sub-domains of sociology K_U16 Knows how to interpret the role of culture in the life of the individual and society K_U17 Can relate an academic text to the problems of social life and its empirical studies |
Metody i kryteria oceniania: |
Assignments for each meeting and active participation in discussions in the classroom. Students are allowed to miss up to three meetings during the course. Weekly tasks are assessed taking into account clarity of the argument, use of knowledge from mandatory readings and keeping deadlines. In case of a belated completion of the course, the same requirements apply. |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych.