Course: Health Policy, Management and Communication – University of Copenhagen Master of HIV education

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Health Policy, Management and Communication

Through the use of basic ideas, concepts and analytical approaches from political science, this course will review how HIV/AIDS policies and other health policies are developed and implemented.

The course programme will identify the organisations and actors involved in the formulation and implementation of health policy including issues related to the selection of health priorities and targeting of beneficiaries from a political perspective. The course will further review the theoretical underpinnings of behaviour change communication and other health promotion activities related to information, education and communication. Finally, it will address health policy within a broader framework of development processes and aid assistance.

Institution:
Copenhagen School of Global Health, University of Copenhagen.
The course takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Course coordinator: Jeffrey Lazarus

Duration of course: 5 weeks

ECTS credits: 7.5

Language: English 

Course content:  

  • Political approaches and ideologies in health care and public health
  • Stakeholders in the health policy process
  • Target groups and priority setting
  • Social inequity in health and access to health care
  • Management tools
  • Health communication
  • From evidence to action

Teaching methodologies of the course
45-minute lectures
Group work and discussions
Panel debates /Oxford Style debates
Exercises
Field trips

Type of Examination

Written exam
Internal examiner
Permitted aids at the exam: None 

Examination ECTS points: 7.5 

 

Learning objectives of the course
Health policy:
Students completing this course will be able to:

  • Use basic ideas, concepts and analytical approaches from political sciences

  • Identify the organisations and actors involved in the formulation and/or the implementation of health policy

  • Follow arguments underlying different policy approaches in health provision

  • View issues related to the selection of health priorities and targeting of beneficiaries from a political perspective

  • Place politics of interest and of morality in analysing health policy and provision

  • Understand the way political systems work with regards to health issues, including agenda setting, the stakeholders and implementation processes

  • Locate health policy within a broader framework of development processes and aid assistance

  • Work with policies that promote healthy environmental changes including improved living conditions.

Health management:
Students completing this course will be able to:

  • Discuss the basics of Project Cycle Management (PCM) and its implications for the strategic management of projects
  • Know how to use several planning tools (e.g. SWOT analysis, Logical Framework Approach) and be able to use them for drafting a project proposal
  • Critically analyse and identify various approaches to health management and organisation with the aim of making an optimal planning/strategy for a health care system.

Health communication:
Students completing this course will be able to:

  • Demonstrate understanding of the core theories and principles behind health communication models (ranging from behaviour change communication (health promotion) to communication for social change)
  • Apply an HIV/AIDS model of behaviour change to identifying barriers to sexual and reproductive health behaviour change
  • Demonstrate an ability to critically analyse communication campaigns according to cultural, social and political environment
  • Develop a health communication campaign brief and present a multi-channel/media HIV/AIDS prevention campaign plan.

Criteria for assessing the fulfilment of the course objectives
The student is expected to participate actively in classes, group work and exercises. The exam consists of three essay questions and will be reviewed and graded according to the described learning objectives. The first essay question is required, and is worth 50% of the grade. The second and third questions are worth 25% each and can be selected from three choices.

Grading:  Written exam: 7-point grading scale

 

Tuition Fee(s): 

Reduced fee (students from the European Community, and the European Economic Community)
DKK 20,800 / EUR 2808

Standard fee (all other students)
DKK 25,350 / EUR 3419

Fees in Euro include a 16 EUR exchange fee.
All fees are subject to regulation.