Section: Module 5: Lesson 1: Health, Equity, and Social Justice | Global Health | NextGenU.org
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Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:- Summarize the key characteristics of social justice and the human rights approaches to global health.
- Discuss the relationships among health, human rights, and global inequalities.
- Using the concepts of social justice and human rights, suggest at least 3 strategies that may be implemented to engage the marginalized and vulnerable populations in healthcare.
- Expound the concept of the global health care workforce crisis, including the factors that contribute to this crisis.
- Examine 3 strategies that can be used to address the global workforce crisis.
- Understand the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its role in the health and well-being of the marginalized and vulnerable population.
- Using the example of substance use disorders, recommend strategies to engage marginalized and vulnerable populations in making decisions that affect their health and well-being.
- Apply interprofessional values and communication skills that exhibit respect for and awareness of the unique cultures, values, and expertise in global health.
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Students mustMark as done
Required Learning Resources and Activities
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Students mustView
Read the entire document. (11 minutes)
WHO - 2010
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Students mustView
Read the content under "Conclusion and Recommendations" on pages 6-7 and "3.2 What are human rights?" on pages 26-27. (7 minutes)
WHO - 2016
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Students mustView
Read the content under "Sexual and reproductive health and rights" on page 2, and "Introduction: denial of sexual and reproductive health and rights: a cause and consequence of gender inequality" on pages 9-12. (2 minutes)
International Planned Parenthood Federation - 2015
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Students mustView
Read the content under the heading "Introduction," "Findings," "Discussion," and "Conclusion." (30 minutes)
Health Promotion International - 2017
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Students mustView
Read the content under the chapter: Human rights and social justice:
separate causes (pgs. 47-52). (26 minutes)Amnesty International - 2015
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Students mustView
Read the entire page. (2 minutes)
WHO - 2021
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Students mustView
Read the content under the heading "Introduction" on pages 9-10 and "Findings" on pages 14-19. (15 minutes)
Consortium of Universities of Global Health - 2013
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Students mustView
Read the entire page. (7 minutes)
World Economic Forum - 2019
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Students mustView
Read the entire article. (10 minutes)
PLOS Medicine - 2013
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Students mustView
Read the content on the sections "What is the right to health?", "How does the right to Health apply to specific groups?" on pages 3-21. (50 minutes)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - 2008
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Discussion Forum 5 - Strategies for Engaging the Vulnerable Groups in Healthcare (300 minutes)
In this activity, you will identify a health issue or problem of a specific vulnerable population and suggest at least 3 strategies that may be implemented to engage the group in health care using the concepts of social justice and human rights.
Step 1. Review
Review the case scenario below.
You are the scriptwriter of an on-going documentary series about vulnerable populations in a particular locality. The theme of your next episode aims to show the challenges and issues faced by populations with substance use disorders in health care and how these resulted in their disengagement and apparent exclusion.
As this is a major documentary series, you are working in correspondence with the regional health program director of the locality that you are shooting. The regional health program director wants you first to draft an initial expository that details the realities mentioned above and some strategies that may be implemented to address the issue of disengagement and exclusion before working together to produce a script.
Step 2. Read and Analyze
Read the entirety of this article and reflect on the following:
- Why is this considered a marginalized and vulnerable population?
- What are the main barriers to involving this population in decision-making?
- What are the authors’ recommendations to address the problem?
Step 3. Write
Draft a 300-500 expository correspondence to the regional health program director that details the following:
- The target vulnerable group
- Their health issues and challenges
- Impact of these health issues and challenges to the group
- Strategies where principles of social justice and human rights can be applied to engage back the vulnerable populations.
- Advantages of using these strategies through examples.
- The impact of using the strategies not only to the vulnerable population but also to the global healthcare workforce.
Note: Your response should demonstrate values and communication skills that exhibit respect for and awareness of the unique cultures, values, of the target population along with your competence in global health.
Step 4. Share
To share your work, click on the “Add a new discussion topic” button under this post and paste your work in the “Message” box. Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).
OPTIONAL Step 5: Interact (10 minutes)
If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”
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Students mustMark as done
Additional Resources for Optional Learning
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Students mustView
Read the entire page. (14 minutes)
Audiovisual Library of International Law