Migration, diversity and health
Course content
The course introduces you to current knowledge on and experiences with providing health and access to health care for migrant populations. The purpose of the course is to provide participants with an insight into the relation between health and migration as well as gain knowledge about issues and possible solutions for ensuring access to health and health care for migrants.
Cases mainly from Denmark and other European countries will be used to describe and discuss the following: terminology, categorization and operationalization of concepts; research methodologies and research ethics, health determinants prior to, during and after migration, morbidity and mortality patterns in migrant populations; formal and informal barriers in access to health services; migrant populations’ experiences in seeking health care; health professionals’ experiences in providing health care to migrant populations.
MSc in Public Health Science - elective element
MSc in Health informatics - elective element
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MSc in Health Science - elective course
MSc in Human Biology - elective course
Knowledge
On completion of the course, the students shall demonstrate knowledge on:
- values in migrant health including equity in health, social vulnerability and health as a human right.
- terminology, categorizations and central concepts
- methodological and ethical issues of carrying out research among migrants
- health determinants in migrant populations
- barriers to and strategies for ensuring access to health in migrant populations
- critically understand and reflect upon the interrelationship between access to health and socio-economic, cultural, physical and psychological factors of importance in migrant situations
- diverstiy competences
Skills
On completion of the course, the students shall demonstrate the ability to:
- discuss terminology, categorizations and central concepts related to discrimination, race, ethnicity and migration.
- identify different relevant methods of analysing problems related to migration and health both in relation to qualitative and quantitative methods.
- apply analytical approaches to migration and health included in the course as learned through case work.
- use their analytical skills on relevant international articles and reports on migrants’ health and health care.
Competences
On completion of the course, the students shall demonstrate the ability to:
- describe and discuss the concepts of race, ethnicity, discrimination and migration.
- define the diversity of migrant groups which the field focuses on and where demographic sources are found.
- describe similarities in health and access to health between different categories of migrant populations.
- describe the concepts of equity in health and health and human rights in relation to migrants’ health.
- describe disease patterns, causal mechanisms and risk factors related to migrants’ health.
- describe formal and informal barriers to migrants’ health care and relevant health policies.
- Understand diversity competences in health care.
Lectures, presentations and discussions in plenary
Selected articles and book chapters are included in the syllabus.
Applicants must have basic knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods
Open for credit transfer students and other external students. Apply here:
Credit transfer students:
http://healthsciences.ku.dk/education/other-programme-options/credit-transfer-students/
Other external students:
https://healthsciences.ku.dk/education/student-mobility/guest-students/
- ECTS
- 10 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Written assignment, 4 hours under invigilation
- Type of assessment details
- The course will be finalised by a written examination. The exam is a 4-hour examen aiming at answering two out of three questions using a maximum of 6 pages.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
Notes uploaded to Digital Notes via Digital Exam (you'll find a link for upload in Digital Exam).
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
- Exam period
Criteria for exam assessment
To achieve the maximum grade of 12, the student must be able to demonstrate knowledge and critically reflect on:
- values in migrant health including equity in health, social vulnerability and health as a human right.
- terminology, categorizations and the central concepts of ethnicity and migration.
- methods and ethical issues of carrying out research among migrants
- health determinants and morbidity patterns among migrant populations – including differences between these diverse groups.
- barriers to and strategies for ensuring access to health in migrant populations.
- interrelationship between access to health and socio-economic, cultural, physical and psychological factors of importance in migrant situations.
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 40
- Preparation
- 206
- Exam Preparation
- 35
- Exam
- 4
- English
- 285
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- SFOK23008U
- ECTS
- 10 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedulegroup
-
See the Schedule in syllabus
- Capacity
- 28 students
- Studyboard
- The Study Board for Public Health Science and Global Health
Contracting department
- Department of Public Health
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Course Coordinator
- Marie Louise Nørredam (4-6f6370714275777066306d7730666d)
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