Survey of Public Health Interventions Summer 2012-2013DS 175.83 Leland Joseph R. Dela Cruz

Course Description

This course provides an overview of various public health interventions by situating these interventions within various classificatory frames. Lectures on these classificatory frames will be supplemented by inputs from health development practitioners who will discuss their experience of carrying out these interventions in the field.

Course Requirements and Grading System

4.7 < X :A B+: 4.7 > X > 4.34.3 > X > 3.9 :B C+: 3.9 > X > 3.53.5 > X > 3.0 :C D: 3.0 > X > 2.0

2.0 > X: F

8 Quizzes: 40%Term paper: 20%

Finals: 20%Recitation: 20%

Graded Recitation:All students are expected to have read the assigned readings before coming to class. Students will be called at random to recite. In those instances when students volunteer to answer, priority will be given to those who have not recited recently and then to those individuals with lower grades in the class.

Students will be graded from 0 to 3 each time they go through graded recitation (not all recitation is graded). Intelligent questions or insights raised in class may be considered graded recitation. The denominator of graded recitation is fixed at 50 points (unless the rule regarding cellular phones and beepers applies). Every point in excess of 50 points will add 0.01 to the students’ lowest long test.

Class Policies:1. Students must identify themselves on their answer sheets for their long tests, finals, and quizzes

only by using the last four digits of their ID number. Students who write their names will not receive a grade higher than 4.0 for that requirement.

2. Lateness is considered a cut.3. Students are discouraged from leaving the classroom once the class has started.4. Students must stand when called to recite.5. Cellular phones and beepers must be switched off or put on mute mode. Owners of cellular

phones or beepers that ring in the middle of class must step out. If no one acknowledges that it was his/her cellular phone that went off, the class will be given graded recitation that will increase the graded recitation denominator.

Consultation Hours:Consultation may be done after class daily. Students may also send e-mail to the teacher at ldelacruz@ateneo.edu.

DS 175.83

TopicSession 12 hoursApril 12

Lecture: AmartyaSen’s Entitlement FrameworkReadings: Sen, A. (1999) Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books.

Chapters 4, 7. Sen. A. (1981). Poverty and Famines:An Essay on Entitlements and

Deprivation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Chapters 1 and 10         Dreze, Jean; Sen, Amartya; and Hussain, Athar (eds.), The Political Economy of Hunger. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. Chapter 2 (For more on entitlements and famines)

Session 23.5 hoursApril 13

Quiz 1: AmartyaSen’s Entitlement Framework Speaker: BotikaBinhiSpeaker: Conditional Cash Transfers

Session 32.5 hoursApril 16

Quiz 2: Speakers on EntitlementsLecture: Social ProtectionReadings:World Bank (2001), Social Protection Sector Strategy: From Safety Net to

Springboard.Holzman, Sherburne-Benz and Tesliuc (2003), Social Risk Management: The

World Bank’s Approach to Social Protection in a Globalizing World . Session 43.5 hoursApril 17

Quiz 3: Social ProtectionSpeaker: PhilhealthSpeaker: Occupational Health and SafetyDiscussion on Social Protection

Session 53 hoursApril 18

Quiz 4: Speakers on Social Protection

Lecture: AmartyaSen’s Capability FrameworkReadings: Sen, A. (1999) Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books.

Chapters 4, 7. Nussbaum, Martha and Sen, Amartya (eds.), The Quality of Life. Oxford:

Clarendon Press, 1993. “Capability and Well-Being” (For more on capabilities and freedom)

Lecture: Social ExclusionReading:Sen, Amartya (2000). Social Exclusion: Concept, Application and Scrutiny.

Manila: Asian Development Bank.Session 63.5 hoursApril 19

Quiz 6: Social ExclusionSpeaker : Differently-AbledSpeaker : AIDSDiscussion on Social Exclusion

Session 72.5 hoursApril 20

Quiz 7: Speakers on Social ExclusionLecture: Human SecurityReading: Human Security Now. The Final Report of the Commission on Human Security. 2003.

Session 83 hoursApril 23

Quiz 8: Human SecuritySpeaker: Health in Situations of Armed ConflictSpeaker: Environmental Health

Session 91 hourApril 24

Quiz 9: Speakers on Human SecuritySynthesis Discussion