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Prof Catherine Campbell STC.303 and Dr Jenevieve Mannell STC.367

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Health, Community and Development. This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Social Psychology. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course examines the psycho-social determinants of community health and social development, in the context of health inequalities and social marginalisation in the global North and South. In particular it explores the role of participation, partnerships and collective action in facilitating health, well-being, the management of illness (including prevention, service access, care and treatment) and health-enabling social change. Attention is given to promoting behaviours that facilitate both physical and mental health and well-being more generally, viewing health as a phenomenon that spans the individual, community and social levels of analysis.

The challenges of facilitating health, and health-enhancing collective action, are explored with reference to social identities, social representations and local knowledge, dialogue, empowerment, critical thinking, gender, soc