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Public Health Policy Development
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:20.10.2022 15:22:07
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_127 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Public Health | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Elīna Vrobļevska | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Public Health and Epidemiology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 9 Kronvalda boulevard, svek rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67338307 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Prior knowledge in public health. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of the course is to develop an understanding of the process of public health policy-making and the opportunities and ways to influence it through the representation of different actors, both governmental and non-governmental. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Public health policy: development, decision-making process and implementation, parties involved and analysis. Current trends and challenges. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Public health policy in Latvia - parties involved and policy analysis. Case studies. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Agenda-setting and lobbying: actors, strategies, techniques. Public health policy communication - channels and tools. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Decision-making in public health policy: simulation. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Global public health policy and its interaction with the state. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Public health policy from different national perspectives: individual project presentations. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | At the end of the course, each student is required to produce one paper on a topic of their choice. The aim of this paper is to broaden students’ perspectives on public health policy development in different countries. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • Participation in seminars (including presentation of the paper) - 30%; • Essay - 20%; • Individual project - 30%; • Exam mark - 20%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | At the end of the course, students should be able to evaluate, explain and understand the processes within the framework of which health policy is made. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To apply the knowledge gained in lectures to public health policy analysis. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Ability and understanding to influence political direction and decision-making processes on behalf of the public health sector. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Guest, Charles, et.al. Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Oxford University Press, 2013. | ||||||||
| 2 | Nickitas, Donna, Donna Middaugh, and Veronica Feeg (eds). Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals. Jones and Bartlett Learning, 2020. | ||||||||
| 3 | Coveney, John. “Analyzing Public Health Policy: Three Approaches.” Health Promotion Practice 11, no. 4. 2010: 515-521. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 4 | Parackal, M., et.al. “Dynamic Transactional Model: A Framework for Communicating Public Health Messages via Social Media.” Perspectives in Public Health 20, no. 10. 2020. | ||||||||
| 5 | Understanding Public Health. Making Health Policy, edited by Kent Buse, Nicholas Mays, and Gill Walt, MacGrawHill Open University Press, 2012. | ||||||||
| 6 | Greer, Scott, et.al. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About European Union Health Policies but Were Afraid to Ask. World Health Organization, 2019. 63-93. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Oliver, Thomas. “The Politics of Public Health Policy.” Annual Review of Public Health 27, 2006, 195-233. | ||||||||
| 2 | Brownson, Ross, et.al. “Understanding Evidence-Based Public Health Policy.” AMJ Public Health 9, no. 99. 2009: 1576-1583. | ||||||||
| 3 | Kickbusch, Ilona. “The End of Public Health as We Know It.” Public Health 18, no. 7. 2004: 459-538. | ||||||||
| 4 | Orme, Judy, et al. Public Health for the 21st Century. McGraw-Hill Education, 2007. | ||||||||
