DV456 Half Unit
Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections
This information is for the 2023/24 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Tiziana Leone CON 8.11
Availability
This course is compulsory on the MSc in Social Research Methods. This course is available on the MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Management (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Sciences Po), MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Economic Policy for International Development, MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation, MSc in Global Health Policy, MSc in Health and International Development, MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies, MSc in Political Economy of Late Development and MSc in Urbanisation and Development. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Places will be allocated with priority first to MSc Health and International Development students and then to students on International Development and joint-degree programmes. In cases where there are more applicants than spaces places will be allocated randomly in accordance with the priorities listed above. Spare places for non-ID/Joint Degree students will be allocated by random selection, with preference given to degrees that permit this option.
Pre-requisites
Some familiarity with personal computers is required, but a high degree of technical proficiency is not required. Familiarity with excel (basic functions) needed otherwise attend a course at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Life. For more details on whether the course might be suitable for you please visit Moodle.
Course content
The course is practical in nature and overviews key methods used for planning in population and development with an emphasis on the health sector. Key questions which will be answered in this course are: what is the future of the world population; what are the family planning needs of couples in low income countries; what will be the number of newly HIV infected in the next 15 years; what is the future of major diseases; what is the impact of key health interventions. The focus will be both on producing information as well as on searching and understanding data provided by key international agencies and on learning how to relate the information meaningfully to policy makers. Relevance will be given to methods used for assessing the implications of high levels of mortality in developing countries with specific reference to the HIV/AIDS pandemic; as well as the assessment of high fertility levels due to low uptakes o