Sociology

Through the lens of sociology and psychology, this course explores interpersonal relationships, including kinship, friendship, love, and marriage. It looks at interpersonal relationships as an essential component of human social interaction. The course also analyzes the reasons for conflict and ways to improve interpersonal relationships.

This course familiarizes students with: the epidemiology of mortality and disease; the determinants of health; the ageing of society and its implications for medical care; the unequal distribution of health; moral issues in public health; the economics of public health; health systems analysis; public health genomics; markets and public health; public health disasters. Students become familiar with public policymaking, including: the various components of public policy (values, objectives, instruments, policy paradigm); the concept of the policy cycle (problem recognition and definition, agenda building, policy formation, policy implementation, policy evaluation and feedback); theoretical approaches of public policy making (rational model, political model, institutionalist model); stakeholder and policy community analysis; types of state-society relationships (elitist model, pluralist model, corporatist model, regulatory agency model, communitarian model); the role of power in public policymaking.