Unit 5: HL extension · Global political challenges
Topic 5.4: Health Questions
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Explain why health is a political issue and not just a medical one.
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Explain why pharmaceutical companies have so much power in global health governance.
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Analyse why most real health problems involve access, security and governance at once.
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Explain why 'vaccine nationalism' can be self-defeating during a pandemic.
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Explain how income, gender and geography shape health outcomes.
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Discuss the view that global health inequality is an avoidable injustice.
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Discuss the view that health should be treated as a human right that the state must guarantee.
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Discuss the view that states are right to put their own citizens first during a pandemic.
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Discuss the view that global health governance fails the world's poorest.
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Discuss the view that global health problems are best solved by cooperation rather than national action.
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To what extent can global health equity be achieved? (synthesise the whole health challenge)
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Recommend how global health governance could be reformed to deliver fairer access to vaccines and medicines.
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To what extent does private and philanthropic power help or harm global health? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how a government could make the right to health a reality for its poorest citizens.
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To what extent can the 'right to health' be more than a slogan? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how the international community could reduce health inequalities between rich and poor countries.
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To what extent are global health inequalities the result of poverty rather than health policy? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how the international community could respond more effectively to future pandemics.
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To what extent can global cooperation overcome national self-interest in a pandemic? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Using a case of your choice, recommend how the international community and a national government together could improve health for a disadvantaged population.
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