Year 4 CSP4b: Global Health and Ethics
- Dr Jeannette Naish
- j.c.naish@qmul.ac.uk
Introduction
Global health lectures aim to encourage students to broaden their concept of health and consider health in the global context.
AIMS
1. To introduce medical students to international issues that have impact on global health
2. Demonstrate the significance of global issues relevant to the health of Londoners
3. Examine the changing nature of health and healthcare worldwide
4. Consider environmental health issues; tsunamis, earthquakes, global warming
5. Examine the political and economic reasons for poverty and inequality
6. Consider conflict as a public health concern
7. Review the evolution of infectious diseases and the control of infections worldwide
Sessions
Introduction to Global Health
GH: Comparing Health Systems
Well London: Delivering and Evaluating Community Development Approaches in the Promotion of Wellbeing
The Integration of Global Health Partnerships to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
How the English NHS is Being Opened to the Market: Implications for Comprehensive Care
History and Debate Between Schools of Selective and Comprehensive Public Health Care
Migration, Conflict and Mental Health
Health and Income Inequalities Worldwide
The Role of Diagnostics in the Control and Elimination of Malaria in the 21st Century
The Evidence Base and the Din of the Prejudice: Working with People who Cannot Work.
Doha Ten Years On and Access to Medicines
Food Policy and Ecological Public Health: Integrating Health and other Values
Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Argue pro and con termination of pregnancy.
- Describe the legal status of the foetus.
- Explain the concept of personhood and describe its relation to the morality of abortion.
- Describe the legal conditions of lawful abortion as outlined in the Abortion Act 1967 (1990).
- Explain the legal status of the woman and of her husband/partner regarding abortion.
- Describe the duties and rights of the doctor in relation to abortion.
- Outline the principles of the HFEA 1990 concerning research on embryos.
- Identify legal and ethical issues in reproductive medicine, prenatal screening and genetic counselling.
The Transplant Debate
Ethics in Paediatrics
- Identify three distinct groups of minors in relation to mental capacity, consent and refusal of treatment.
- Describe the medical law pertaining to minors and the tension reflected therein between respect for their autonomy and acting in their best interests.
- Explain the legal concept of parental responsibility and its relevance to the consent question.
- Explain how conflicts between the interests of minors and their guardians ought to be resolved.
