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Development and Health
- To achieve familiarity with key concepts such as social determinants of health and socio-economic gradients in health.
- To be able to assess arguments about the relative contribution of health care or health systems and social determinants of health to socio-economic gradients in health and population health.
- To be able to assess the implications for health and health inequalities of news items in sources like The Economist and the Financial Times.
- To be able to assess the prospects for future improvements in population health outside the high-income countries in light of key developments in the international political economy.
- To be able to apply these understandings to the changed world that will follow the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.