Background

• Conditions of health and causes of disease in countries examined as part of the program
• National and international strategies for dealing with global health problems
• Approaches to health promotion and disease prevention and the means of putting these approaches into practice
• Stewardship, regulation and financing of health systems and health care at a national level, and tools for evaluaiton and quality assurance.
• Gender as a socio-cultural construct and as a cross-sectional category that significantly influences the health and living conditions of women and men.
• Diversity as a multitude of structural categories including socio-economic status, age, ethnic background, and sexual orientation that further influence health and the living conditions of women and men.
• The hence resulting societal, social, and political causes for differences in mortality and morbidity between the genders and other diversity-relevant populations.
• Equity within the allocation of health resources with regard to gender and diversity-relevant populations.

(3) The aim of the program is for students to acquire knowledge, methods, skills, and experiences necessary for work in an international/global public health field that focuses on gender and diversity. Possible spheres of activity include research, consultation, and management tasks aimed at sustaining and improving the health of demographic groups with particular reference to gender and diversity.

(4) Exposure to lectures, seminars, projects, and research work enables students to acquire skills and gain knowledge about the following:

• Analysis and evaluation of health situations relating to the population as a whole and also to gender and diversity-relevant populations at communal, regional, and national levels as well as in comparison with international standards.
• Investigation of the physical, psychological, social, and environmental conditions of health and disease as well as their correlation to gender and diversity-relevant populations.
• Recognition of public health problems and tasks and the development and formulation of scientifically-based solutions from a gender/diversity perspective.
• Analysis and evaluation of the structure, cost developments, and dynamics of health systems.
• Evaluation and quality assurance in health care service provision and health promotion programs.
• Advocacy and advisory skills to improve empowerment and health promotion and disease prevention in populations..

(5) The program is primarily research-oriented.

Impressum : © 2004: Master Program Health and Society: Gender and Diversity Studies Berlin Berlin School of Public Health an der Charité Haus 10 Seestr. 73 D-13347 Berlin health-society@charite.de

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