Population and Reproductive Health

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Appreciate the perspectives and emphases that different academic and professional disciplines place on population health in research, programmes and policies.
• Be able to describe the key demographic processes and changes that influence contemporary population and reproductive health in different regions of the world
• Have gained knowledge relevant to disciplinary training about the biological, behavioural, genetic, and socio-economic influences on the burden of disease and illhealth in populations; and, on inequalities in health status across and between populations.
• Have gained knowledge about the measurement of population health outcomes and be able to describe some of the main strengths and limitations associated with population-level estimates of health such as underreporting, bias, measurement instruments, criteria and hard-to-reach groups.
• Be able to describe the most important communicable and non-communicable health issues facing contemporary societies in developed and less developed countries
• Have developed scientific understanding and skills in using sources of published research and summary data on the health of populations, and the determinants of population health.

• Introduction to the module. What is population health?
• Measuring health outcomes / Adult health: non-communicable diseases
• Physical environment / Communicable diseases
• Health equity / Newborn and child health
• Social environment / Maternal and reproductive health
• Individual health behaviours / Sexual health
• Health care environment / Mental health
• Genetics and biology / Family health
• Health within population sub-groups / Policies and interventions
• Skills in population health research – specialist search engines and online data sources

Students will also be asked to choose topics from two different areas of population and reproductive health for each of their two assignments. Although students will be encouraged to draw on scholarship from epidemiology, medicine and medical sociology, however, the emphasis in this module will be the types of knowledge, methods, study methods and analytical approaches associated with demography and social statistics.

Teaching will be delivered synchronously by in-person or online lectures and skills sessions. Each teaching and skill session is supported by guidance materials for student self-directed study.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.