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Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies (DEVP0045 PART I)

Content:

This module aims to equip students with an in-depth understanding of the key concepts, questions and themes surrounding urban health in a rapidly urbanizing world. In doing so, the module explores the relationship between urban living and health across a number of pressing issues, ranging from urbanization to planning and governance, poverty and inequality, disasters and climate change, transport and globalisation. Gender and sustainability are cross-cutting themes. A comparative perspective is developed through the investigation of city case studies, enabling students to explore the urban dimensions of health within and across different contexts.

Teaching delivery:

This module is comprised of 9 weekly teaching units and accounts for 15-credits. Each teaching unit will be supported by asynchronous activities to be completed by students ahead of each campus-based session in order to create space for interactive forms of teaching and learning in the classroom.

Topics:

This module covers the topics outlined in the table below:

Health in cities: Past and present approaches

Urbanization, health and the environment

Urban planning and public health: Past, present and future

Health in informal settlements

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Urban health, mobility and transport

Urban health and violence

Health and sustainable urban futures

Health risks faced by children in urban environments

Globalization and urban health

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Learning outcomes:

On completion of the module, participants will have knowledge of:

• The interface between specific urban elements (such as infrastructure and governance) and their effect on the health of individuals and communities in cities, thinking specifically about gender dynamics
• The relationship between urbanization and health, and the centrality of planning and governance in mediating this relationship
• The different conceptual and analytical frameworks for understanding and improving urban health, with a focus on the SDOH approach