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Module details
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Health Policy, Politics and Social Justice study block incorporates philosophical, political, policy and ethical perspectives on public health and health promotion to critically examine to what extent societies can design and build effective public health institutions and health promotion systems to enhance health and well-being.
The study block is designed to help students distinguish “good health policy” from “good policy for health”; explaining, through theories, case studies, and models; that it is the latter that is needed for health justice. This supports the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) “all-of-government” or “health-in-all-policies” approach, recognizing that the health sector is not the only contributor to good health.
You will study the central ethical, historical, commercial and political challenges facing health policy in the UK and internationally, especially in relation to social justice.
You will also explore dimensions of health policy, public–private partnerships, the politics of health, political ideologies, the role of commercial and business interests, health ethics, and social justice.
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