3 ECTS credits
87 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4022272ENR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
- Department
- Gerontology
- Educational team
- Wim Van Damme
(course titular)
Grace Marie Ku
- Activities and contact hours
- 18 contact hours Lecture
6 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
36 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
- Introduction to health systems thinking, including relevance of cultural context.
- Introduction to transitions in low- and middle-income countries, and to their impact on disease and on the health system.
- Health problems of ageing populations in low- and middle-income countries, with special focus on the growing burden of chronic diseases.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Notes & slides ; Scientific papers, Canvas
- Additional info
COURSE MATERIAL
Notes & slides
Scientific papers
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
KNOWLEDGE
The student acquires knowledge on understanding a health system, including relevance of cultural context, and on tackling chronic diseases in the elderly in a particular context
INSIGHT
The student gains insight on how to apply a health system framework and a chronic disease framework
SKILLS
The student improves his/her skills to find relevant scientific information on a specific health problem of the elderly, is able to apply this to a specific cultural context and present it in a short oral presentation.
ATTITUDES
The student thinks about context when studying a health problem
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Examen Andere
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Oral exam, starting from personal assignment
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Oral exam, starting from personal assignment
In exceptional circumstances a student can submit a motivated request to the head of the programm in order to be allowed to take an online exam.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Research Master of Gerontological Sciences: Standaard traject