MPH2055 - Health ethics and human rights

Leader(s): Associate Professor B Loff

Offered

Alfred Hospital First semester 2009 (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:

1. Appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of rights from an ethical perspective and a rights based approach to international law;
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how such a framework might be applied in analysing health concerns;
3. 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