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

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • 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. 6733)

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 integrated course is organized as a cycle of seminars and is open to students of all Degrees.

The topics covered will be:
Culture and health from an anthropological perspective


Social determinants and health inequalities

Globalization and the commercial determinants of health

Workshops on: Social determinants and health inequalities

Primary Health Care approaches and strategies

Digitalization in  primary care

Health promotion

Workshops on health promotion

Mental health and inequalities

Prison and health

Migration and health

Workshops on Comprehensive Primary Health Care approaches

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 for the course wille be published in the second semester.

Teaching methods

Interactive and frontal lectures.

Assessment methods

Oral exam on the readings provided.

Office hours

See the website of Ivo Quaranta