Researching Children’s Well-Being in the Context of Global Inequity

 

Research Centre for Health Promotion-University of Bergen

   Course leaders: 

• Gro Th. Lie, Professor, Research Centre for Health Promotion, UiB
• Marguerite Daniel, Researcher , Research Centre for Health Promotion, UiB
• Haldis Haukanes, Associate professor, Research Centre for Health Promotion, UiB

Invited course leader:

• Dr A Bame Nsamenang, Yaounde University, Cameroon, Human Development Resource Centre, WHO knowledge Network member

Short Course description

We welcome students whose dissertations focus on children’s and young people’s psychosocial health and/or development in situated contexts. This will be a multidisciplinary course with the main focus on critical health promotion and social science perspectives. Different theoretical perspectives on childhood will be presented and discussed as well as different ways of collecting data with children.  The hope is that a multidisciplinary approach to children’s health and development using selected critical issues as points of departure will enhance the understanding of children’s well-being in the context of global inequity.

Relevant thematic frameworks:

• The global challenges in achieving health for all
• Intervention challenges and international initiatives such as MDGs
• Equity in global health, interconnections between poverty, inequality and health
• Gendered aspects of global health
• Legal perspectives, including rights

    

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