Minor in short
In this minor, you will be prepared to provide healthcare and health promotion to people in low-income settings or with a migration background in an interculturally sensitive way.
Minor specificaties
This minor is taught in English
You design advice to health professionals in a low- or middle-income country on improving their public health practice and provide culturally sensitive health education in line with this advice in collaboration with others. You give your opinion on a global health issue and indicate your contribution towards this issue.
At the end of the minor…
1) You have basic knowledge of diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
2) You design advice for health professionals in a low- or middle-income country based on a context analysis containing recommendations for public health practice, in collaboration with others.
3) You provide health education in a simulated setting, in collaboration with others.
4) You reflect on your approach to cultural sensitivity while giving advice and conducting health education by using peer review.
5) You give your opinion on a global health issue in a low- or middle-income country by using evidence-based resources, making ethical considerations, and using peer review.
6) You indicate how you could personally contribute towards a global health issue.
An inspiring lecture introduces every theme. From there, you immerse yourself in the theme via online learning units. All gathered knowledge and skills come together during a subsequent workshop. Two weekly you have coaching sessions on intercultural sensitivity. An excursion and a full-day serious game on health resource allocation are also part of the programme.
The final assessment of the minor consists of the submission of a portfolio (individual) and an advice report (as a group). This is combined with a presentation of the advice report (as a group) and a presentation on your opinion on a global health issue and your contribution towards it. The assessment equals 15 EC.
Weekrooster
Dit is een voorbeeld van hoe de weken tijdens de minor eruit komen te zien.
- Maandag Lesdag College op de hogeschool 8:45 – 17:00
- Dinsdag Lecture day
- Woensdag Zelfstudie
- Donderdag Zelfstudie
- Vrijdag Zelfstudie
Practical information
Level: Hbo-minor, bachelor level
Language: English
Credits: 15 EC
Placement is guaranteed for international participants.
2 years of Higher Education
This minor is intended for healthcare students who plan to work or do an internship in a low- or middle-income country. Students who have an interest in global health are also welcome. It is highly recommended to follow the minor Sustainability and Practical Ethics prior to this minor. The language in use is English.
International students can only start at the CHE in September. The Global Health programme can, therefore, only be followed by international students in combination with another minor of 15 EC that starts in September.
Tineke de Groot en Irene Koudijs
- Davidson, R. Brent, A & Seale, A. 2021. Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Nunez, Nunez-Mahdi & Popma. 2021. Intercultural sensitivity. From denial to intercultural competence. Assen: Uitgeverij Koninklijke Van Gorcum.
- A broad variety of international resources, whereby WHO resources have a prominent place.
