MOOC INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HEALTH 2025
It is widely recognized that individual health outcomes are a result of factors that are
much broader than merely personal health choices and individual behavioral change. In
a rapidly changing world, health is determined by a wide range of global factors such as
economic, human rights, climate change, equality, politic, trade and travel, information,
etc. Health improvement lies at the center of those factors, where practitioners work with
individuals and communities within a context of competing powerful global institutions
and often in situations. This course focuses on global health issues and factors influence
global health, and to look critically at those factors. This will also enable the students to
have an interdisciplinary discussion, to look around the health issues emerge locally and
bring those issues onto the table and discuss them in a global context, from the point of
view of their educational backgrounds.