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PHI5252 · Global health care delivery: Principles and challenges
2026 Handbook6 credit pointsLevel 5Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Last checked: 23 Aug 2026 UTCOverview
Understanding global health in a modern, globalised world has never been more challenging or significant. Global health lies at the nexus of global patterns of biological and social disorder and the need for effective, integrated and practical global health care delivery is crucial and immediate. You will explore global health care delivery using a practical, human rights based approach. It will include critical analysis of the impacts of globalisation on human health, postcolonial frameworks for global health understanding and the governance structures that oversee global health. It will also analyse factors contribute to global health inequality and assist in development of intercultural competence. Topics for discussion will include: barriers to migrant and refugee health care; the impacts of development, AID and colonisation on global health care; the relationships between neoliberalism and neglected diseases; and the successes and failures of global health governance.
Areas of study: Public Health
Offerings
| Campus | Teaching period | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | Monash Indonesia term 3 | Teaching activities are on-campus and in a block period (ON-BLK) |
Assessment
The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.
| # | Assessment | Type | Weight | Hurdle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team oral presentation (10 minutes) | Presentation | 50% | — |
| 2 | Hypothetical scenario essay (1,800 words +/-10%) | Artefact | 50% | — |
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Requisites
prohibitions
- MPH5252 — Global health care delivery: principles and challenges
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate human-rights based approaches to global health care delivery.
- Critically analyse impacts of globalisation on human health and consider the ethics of globalisation.
- Demonstrate intercultural competence and collaborative teamwork skills within global health care contexts.
- Analyse and predict factors contributing to global health inequity.
- Apply postcolonial frameworks to global healthcare issues.
- Investigate and critique current governance structures for complex global health issues.
Workload
24 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (scheduled classes, prescribed activities and independent work).
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