SFV4700 Globalisation and the Development of Health and Social Policy Emneplan

A student who has completed his or her qualification has the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has advanced knowledge of

• main theoretical debates concerning how globalisation impacts upon health and social welfare in different parts of the world
• trends in economic growth, poverty and inequality
• how disease patterns may change during socio-economic development
• social policy responses to globalisation in low, middle and high income countries
• multilateral agencies (including the World Bank and IMF) and their social development strategies
• the relationship between international health policy and social policy

Skills

The student can

• review and discuss different theoretical perspectives on globalisation and local development
• investigate health and social policy outcomes in different countries
• investigate how socioeconomic changes influence disease patterns and demographic patterns in different countries
• analyse how various aspects of globalisation influence health and social policy outcomes in high, middle and low income countries

The course is organised into a series of six four-hour long lectures and seminars. Students are expected to play an active role in lectures and seminars. Lectures are given by both the course lecturer and invited lecturers. Students will also be required to present papers, and discuss course themes during lectures and seminars.

Students must submit a work requirement of 11 pages (+/-10%) on a course topic, preferably written in groups of 3-5 students. The paper must be approved by the course lecturer. Students whose papers are not approved after the first submission will be given the chance to resubmit once.

Papers that are not approved after two submissions will disqualify students from sitting the final examination.

The student's learning outcome will be assessed on the basis of an individual six-hour written school examination.

Students are awarded grades on a descending scale from A to E for pass and F for fail.

The written exam will be assessed by an internal and external examiner. The external examiner grades a random sample consisting of at least 20 per cent of the written exams. The grades given for this sample provide a basis for the internal examiner's assessment. The external examiner will also grade papers where there is doubt about giving a grade of pass. Students who have failed a regular examination are entitled to sit a new examination.

Students may use a spelling dictionary, as well as a bilingual dictionary during this written school exam.

Syllabus

Books

Bøås, Morten and Desmond McNeill. 2003. Multilateral institutions. A critical introduction. London: Pluto Press (184 pages).

Goldin Ian and Kenneth Reinert. 2012. Globalization for development. Meeting new challenges . Oxford: Oxford University Press (284 pages).

Compendium

*Askegaard, Søren and Giana M Eckhardt. 2012. Glocal yoga: Re-appropriation in the Indian consumptionscape. Marketing theory vol. 12(1) pp. 45-60 (16 pages).

*Berger, Peter. 2002. The cultural dynamics of globalization. In P Berger and S P Huntington (eds): Many globalizations. Cultural diversity in the contemporary world . Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 1-16 (15 pages).

*Bettcher, Douglas et al. 2009. International public health instruments. In Roger Detels, Robert Beaglehole, Mary Ann Lansang and Martin Guillford (eds.): Oxford textbook of public health . Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 368-382 (15 pages).

*Bond, Michael. 2012. The backlash against NGOs. In Frank J Lechner and John Boli (eds.): The globalization reader . London: Wiley-Blackwell pp. 318-323 (6 pages).

*Bonoli, Giuliano. 2012. Blame avoidance and credit claiming revisited. In Giuliano Bonoli and David Natali (eds.). The politics of the new welfare state . Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 93-110 (17 pages).

*Castles, Stephen, Hein de Haas and Mark J Miller. 2014. The age of migration. Ch 3: How migration transforms societies. New York: The Guilford Press (28 pages).

** Colgrave, James. 2002. The McKeown thesis: A historical controversy and its enduring influence.American Journal of Public Health vol. 92, 5, 725-730 (5 pages).

**Dobbin Frank, Beth Simmons and Geoffrey Garrett. 2007. The global diffusion of public policies: Social construction, coercion, competition, or learning? Annual Review of Sociology vol. 33 pp. 449-472 (33 pages).

*Dyson, Tim. 2010. Social effects of the demographic transition. In Tim Dyson: Population and Development. The Demographic Transition. London: Zed books (29 pages).

*Easterly, William. 2006. The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good , chapter 6: You can't plan a market. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 53-98 (45 pages).

*Fitzpatrick, Tony. 2006. International encyclopedia of social policy . Entries on adverse selection, , moral hazard, state. London: Routledge. (5 pages).

**Ginneken, Wouter van. 2007. Extending social security coverage: Concepts, global trends and policy issues. International social security review vol. 60 (2-3), 39-59 (20 pages).

*Hemerijck, Anton. 2012. Two or three waves of welfare state transformation? In Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier and Joakim Palme (eds): Towards a social investment welfare state? Bristol: Policy Press pp. 33-60 (28 pages).

*Heymann, David L. 2009. Emerging and re-emerging infections. In Roger Detels, Robert Beaglehole, Mary Ann Lansang and Martin Guillford (eds): Oxford textbook of public health . Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1264-1273 (10 pages).

*Jerven, Morten. 2013. Comparability of GDP estimates in Sub-Saharan Africa: The effect of revisions in sources and methods since structural adjustment. The Review of Income and Wealth Series 59, Special Issue, October, p 16-36 (20 pages).

*McGrew, Anthony. 2014. Globalization and global politics. In John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds): The globalization of world politics. An introduction to international relations . Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 15- 31 (16 pages).

*McInnes, Colin and Kelley Lee.2012. Global health and international relations , Ch 6: Security and health. Cambridge, Polity Press, p 130-157 (27 pages).

*McMichael, Anthony and Hilary J Bambrick. 2009. The global environment. In R Detels et al (eds): Oxford Textbook of Public Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press (17 pages).

**Moran, Timothy Patrick. 2005. Kuznets's inverted U-curve hypothesis: The rise, demise and continued relevance of a socioeconomic law. Sociological Forum vol. 20, 2, 209-244 (35 pages).

*Oudraat, Chantal de Jounge and Virginia Haufer. 2012. Global governance and the role of NGOs in international peace and security. In Frank J Lechner and John Boli (eds.): The globalization reader . London: Wiley-Blackwell pp. 332-337 (6 pages).

*Overbye, Einar. 2003. Globalisation and the design of the welfare state. In D. Pieters (ed): European Social Security and Global Politics , The Hague: Kluwer. pp. 145-166 (21 pages).

*Rogers, Everett. 2003. Diffusion of innovations chapter 1: Elements of diffusion and chapter 11: Consequences of innovations. New York: Free Press. (73 pages).

**Rötheli, Tobias F. 2010. Causes of the financial crisis: Risk misperception, policy mistakes, and banks' bounded rationality. Journal of Socio-Economics vol. 39 pp. 119-126 (8 pages).

**Scott, Alison et al. 2012. Obesity in Sub-Saharan Africa: development of an ecological theoretical framework. Health Promotion International vol 28 (1) 4-16 (12 pages).

*Smith, Steve et al. 2014.Introduction. In John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds): The globalization of world politics. An introduction to international relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 2-14 (13 pages)

**Talukdar, Jaita. 2012. Thin but not skinny: Women negotiating the "never too thin" body ideal in urban India.Women's studies International Forum vol 35 p 109-118 (10 pages).

* To be published in a separate compendium.** Available on Canvas.

Total pages: 943.

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(Literature list last updated: September 2016)