ADM4302 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH POLICY
| Course Code: |
3104302 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
Political Science And Public Adm. |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of health and health policy implications of capitalism from a historical comparative perspective. To that effect it bridges two strands of research. namely health sciences and public policy. which both seek to explain and advance health. and health policy at national and global levels. but operate from distinct disciplinary boundaries. Critically engaging with the core theoretical strands in both disciplines. namely the biomedical. and behaviouralist approaches in health sciences on the one hand and the ideasý interests. and institutions based approaches in public policy. the course advances a critical political economy approach to analysing contemporary health policy themes such as health inequities. provision and financing of health care. regulation of innovative medical technologies. and global health.
