70700 - Globalization Processes as Structural Determinants of Health and as Factors of Current Inequalities.

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Docente: Ivo Quaranta
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/42
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the integrated course, students master the framework of the social determinants of health; they have the skills to investigate health as a complex bio-social process; they master the possible interactions between social and medical sciences in the field of health promotion and health equity; they are familiar with the principles of PHC and community approaches and are able to reflect on their practicability in the Italian context, as elsewhere; they are familiar with the global health paradigm as a critical perspective for the investigation of our global predicament.

Course contents

The 3 CFU course is organized as a cycle of seminars and is open to students of all Degrees.


In order to acquire training credits, it is necessary to attend at least the 80% of the lectures, have the course in his/her own Study Plan (or LA) and take an oral interview based on the bibliography indicated.

Readings/Bibliography

The bibliography that will be indicated shortly.

Teaching methods

Interactive and frontal lectures.

Assessment methods

Oral exam on the readings provided.

Office hours

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