GG4247 Geographies of health in sub-Saharan Africa

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

This module will be capped

Planned timetable

Mon 1pm-4pm

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Module coordinator

Dr M G Kesby

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Module Staff

Dr Mike Kesby

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Module description

This module makes the case for a social-scientific, not merely biomedical understanding of health in sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses the geographies of health, exploring the politics of scaling, uneven global distributions, and social contexts that facilitate disease transmission, situate health decision-making and impact experiences of health and disease. The module investigates the socio-spatial relations that produce contemporary health crises such as HIV/AIDS, AMR and covid-19 but also attempts to attend carefully to the materiality of such crises. The module is reading- and seminar-based. It utilises action-based assessment that challenges students to apply their learning to the design of a 'real-world' health intervention.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS 'GG2011 AND GG2012' OR 'SD2001 AND SD2002' OR 'GG2013, GG2014 AND SD2100' OR 'SD2005, SD2006 AND SD2100'.

Anti-requisites

YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS MODULE IF YOU PASS GG3224 OR TAKE GG3224

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Capstone essay

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2 lectures (X10 weeks), 1 Seminar (X10 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

40

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

264

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Understand the diverse geographies of the sub-Saharan African region
  • Have an understanding of the sub-disciplinary field of health geography and appreciation that health and disease are socially embedded in particular places, contexts, and relations.
  • Appreciate the ethical, scalar political and theoretical challenges of conceptualising health and disease
  • Engage in entrepreneurial co-design of a social marketing/public health information intervention