| Course ID: | INTL(HPAM) 4615E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | The Politics of Disease Control |
Course
Description: | Gives students the theoretical background and factual knowledge
to explain how political institutions and actors both facilitate
and impede disease control. Students will explore a range of
contemporary and historical examples of successful and failed
attempts to control disease, viewed through the lens of two core
social science concepts–collective action and public goods. |
| Oasis Title: | Politics of Disease Control |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in INTL 4615, HPAM 4615 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Pre or Corequisite: | INTL 3200 or INTL 3200E or INTL 3300 |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students will:
· understand the core concepts of public goods and collective
action problems
· apply the concepts to a wide variety of cases drawn both
from the historical record and the contemporary world
· distinguish the role that politics has played in efforts to
control disease
· demonstrate how the features of specific diseases and public
health aims have shaped the incentives facing political actors |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Social Science Foundations
- Theoretical introduction to public goods and collective
action problems
2. Vaccination as a collective action problem
- Vaccination today
- Vaccination in the past
3. Disease eradication
- Collective action problems linked to eradication
- The case of smallpox
4. Disease control as environmental protection
- The role of externalities in disease and disease control
- Water-borne disease in early 20th-century America
- Air pollution in 19th-century Britain
- Air pollution in India and China today
5. HIV in Africa and Brazil
- The impact of ethnic diversity on disease control
6. Malaria
- Malaria in the U.S. South
- Malaria eradication
- Malaria today
7. Democracy and disease
- Cross national studies
- Sub-national studies |
| Honor Code Reference: | The academic honesty policy of the university is supplemented
(not replaced) by an Honor Code which was adopted by the Student
Government Association and approved by the University Council
May 1, 1997, and provides: "I will be academically honest in all
of my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of
others." All students agree to abide by this code by signing
the UGA Admissions Application. |