Offered
Alfred Hospital First semester 2008 (Day)
Synopsis
The interrelationship between public health, human rights and ethics. Includes discussion of aboriginal health, women's health, HIV/AIDS, intellectual property and access to pharmaceuticals, refugee health, complex humanitarian crises amongst other topics analysed from a human rights perspective.
Objectives
On completion of this unit students will be able to:
- Appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of rights from an ethical perspective and a rights based approach to international law;
- Demonstrate an understanding of how such a framework might be applied in analysing health concerns;
- Critically evaluate the worth of this framework to contributing to the improvement of human well being.
Assessment
Written report
Oral presentation
Contact hours
2 contact hours per week
