Chapter 21 Learning Objectives

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.