In contemporary societies healthcare is a key social institute that addresses the issues of maintenance and improvement of citizens’ health. While population health is largely produced outside of healthcare settings themselves, the functioning of healthcare, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness, injury, and other impairments, is essential for people’s wellbeing. Yet, healthcare can be and often is insufficiently accessible, responsive, and efficient for different members of society. How can healthcare provision and society be bridged?
Through the exploration of a combination of theoretical and practical perspectives, this online course highlights the necessity of a dialogue and collaboration between healthcare professionals, patients, and the public at large. Course participants will critically explore challenges posed by disjunctures between healthcare and society, analyze both benefits and unintended consequences of bridging the two, and propose ways to accomplish the bridging in practice of healthcare provision.
After completion of this course you will be able to:
1. Recognize disjunctures between healthcare provision and society
2. Be aware of consequences of disjunctures between healthcare provision and society
3. Identify opportunities for bridging healthcare provision and society, using a biosocial approach to health
4. Analyze cases of disjunctures between healthcare provision and society, and propose opportunities for bridging
5. Recognize the historical trends of scientification, professionalization, and medicalization, in the relations between medicine, health care, and society.
This course was developed by a consortium of five universities: Maastricht University, National Research Tomsk State University, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, and Siberian State Medical University within the framework of BIHSENA project. BIHSENA stands for “Bridging Innovations, Health and Societies: Educational capacity building in the Eastern European Neighbouring Areas”. BIHSENA project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This course reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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1完成时间为 1 小时
Introduction to the course “Bridging health care and society”
1 个视频 （总计 4 分钟）, 2 个阅读材料
2 个阅读材料
About the universities10分钟
About the authors10分钟
完成时间为 3 小时
Module 1. Why bridging?
During the last two centuries modern medicine has gained the role of being a key social institution. Advances in science have enriched medical practice with evidence of the causes and consequences of different diseases and have provided algorithms for effective forms of treatment. Health care has evolved and made impressive gains in protecting the wellbeing of individuals and society.
However, there is a number of problems that contemporary healthcare faces. Divergent priorities, understandings, and preferences between patients and healthcare practitioners can result in ineffective treatment, or worse, in health impairments. Lack of responsiveness by healthcare systems to everyday life and the needs of individuals they serve can result in an unequal access to health services by some population groups. These problems are the results of disjunctions between healthcare and patients, and in a broader scope, between medicine and society. This module highlights the importance of understanding such disjunctions and analyzing their roots and consequences. Learners will take a journey through the history of modern medicine and healthcare to explore how they have acquired their prominent characteristics of scientification and professionalization, expressed in a tendency of reducing a disease to a biological phenomenon while often not recognizing the personalities of patients and their cultures, beliefs and environments. During this module, we will focus on the reasons why these characteristics of patients and population groups are important for health provision and public health practices.
5 个视频 （总计 28 分钟）, 1 个阅读材料, 5 个测验
5 个视频
1.2. Case - Professionalization of medicine and quality of care2分钟
1.3. Standardizing healthcare practice10分钟
1.4 Case - Standardization and individual approach3分钟
1.5 Review1分钟
1 个阅读材料
Disjunctions
5 个练习
Professionalization of medicine8分钟
Assessment 1. Professionalisation of medicine and quality of care15分钟
Standardizing healthcare practice6分钟
The medicalization of life2分钟
Assessment 2. Standardization and individual approach15分钟
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2完成时间为 5 小时
Module 2. Bridging healthcare professionals and patients
Social roles of doctor and patient, as well as relations between them, are dramatically changing in contemporary societies in the context of rapid technological shifts and scientific advancements, the commercialization of medicine, and the introduction of the idea of wider public engagement in healthcare provision. During the second module of the course we will delve into these complexities in order to understand the perspectives of medical professionals and their patients, discrepancies between their mutual expectations, and ways through which trustful cooperation can be built. We will consider the key social science approaches to understanding doctors’ professional role and construction of authority. We will also investigate challenges to this authority that emerge in the context of contemporary transformations of medical institution. Particular attention will be paid to issues of patient choice and control in healthcare, and strategies through which patients approach medical services and establish trust in relations with healthcare professionals. Module 2 aims to delineate disjunctures between healthcare professionals and patients, and to offer possible ways to bridge perspectives of these two groups.
5 个视频 （总计 20 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 7 个测验
5 个视频
2.2. Construction of medical authority6分钟
2.3. Contemporary challenges to medical profession4分钟
2.4. Lay perspectives and lay expertise in medicine4分钟
2.5. Review1分钟
3 个阅读材料
About Part 2.2分钟
Trust in healthcare encounters15分钟
Adherence in medical encounters30分钟
6 个练习
Construction of medical authority4分钟
Contemporary challenges to medical profession2分钟
Lay perspectives and lay expertise in medicine2分钟
Assessment 1. Medical professionals and patients15分钟
Trust in healthcare encounters2分钟
Adherence in medical encounters2分钟
周
3完成时间为 4 小时
Module 3. Bridging healthcare services and population groups
Healthcare systems are established in many countries to ensure that individuals are able to obtain health services when illness strikes and that they have access to effective interventions to prevent or reduce risk of disease and disability. Yet, often we observe a disjuncture between healthcare and the population groups it is meant to serve, which results in problems with access to health care even where the necessary services are seemingly in place.
Module 3 examines various kinds of barriers between population groups, their health, and healthcare and suggests ways to bridge the divide through linking social analysis with healthcare services provision for development of services adapted to the people’s needs, lifestyles, and circumstances.
5 个视频 （总计 24 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 5 个测验
5 个视频
3.2. How to understand access to healthcare?8分钟
3.3. Barriers to healthcare5分钟
3.4. Resocializing health care6分钟
3.5. Review1分钟
3 个阅读材料
Reading Healthcare-seeking behavior
Case Disparities in health care
Case Cervical cancer screening10分钟
5 个练习
Healthcare-seeking behavior2分钟
How to understand access to healthcare?4分钟
Barriers to healthcare4分钟
Resocializing health care2分钟
Assessment. Case - Cervical cancer screening30分钟
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4完成时间为 5 小时
Module 4. Bridging public health and public
The notion of public health appears to be intrinsically connected to the public domain. Yet, it appears that with increasing scientification and professionalization of public health over the course of past decades a gap between public health and public has been widening, rather than the other way around. During the last module of this course we will explore the reasons for these developments. Over the course of these last decades, public health has, firstly, expanded considerably, now covering ‘everything from eating, drinking and exercise to sleep, sex and work and addressing lifestyle from before conception right into extreme old age’, in the words of Klasien Horstman. Secondly, public health is increasingly invested in scientifically-based prevention, assuming that evidence-based interventions will turn risk behavior into healthy behavior and framing public health problems, largely, as technical problems which have to be solved through scientific expertise. This module traces the evolution of public health approaches and the rise of contemporary disjunctures between these approaches and the public they target. We see that in daily life people have their own ideas of risk and safety, have to deal with multiple other issues (such as supporting their families and adhering to their notions of the leading a good life), and operate within their unique contexts at specific rhythms. Consequently, the public often does not respond to public health interventions as expected. This module explores ways to bring the public back into public health and bridge the disjunctures demonstrated.
6 个视频 （总计 23 分钟）, 2 个阅读材料, 6 个测验
6 个视频
4.2. The rise of the notion of risk in public health4分钟
4.3. Politics of health promotion 1. Ottawa charter and the new health promotion3分钟
4.4. Politics of health promotion 2. The new health promotion in the neoliberal climate3分钟
4.5. Guest lecture by prof Klasien Horstman “Making health public”9分钟
4.6. Review1分钟
2 个阅读材料
Good evidence for public health
Case - Mixed media project Bianca
5 个练习
The notion of risk in public health2分钟
Good evidence for public health2分钟
Ottawa charter and the new health promotion4分钟
The new health promotion in the neoliberal climate2分钟
Assessment. Case - Mixed media project Bianca15分钟
讲师
Olga Zvonareva
Assistant Professor Health, Ethics and SocietyMaastricht University
Olena Ignaschuk
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Social Medicine and Public Health Services of National Pirogov Memorial Medical University
关于 国立托木斯克大学（National Research Tomsk State University）
National Research Tomsk State University is the largest classical university in the Asian part of Russia. For over 135 years TSU has been training the scientific and managerial elite, based on the integration of academic process and fundamental scientific research. It is a renowned center of education, science, innovations and attraction for creative talents, a generator of advanced ideas, and a paragon of adherence to the best traditions of Russian higher education.
There are 23 departments and learning institutes, 1 University branch, Institute of Distance Education, Institute of Innovations in Education operating at TSU, and more than 17,000 students studying at the University, with 135 subject areas and specialties to choose from. TSU offers 136 Master’s programmes in 55 areas of academic studies and counting.
The number of international students is constantly increasing, now with more than 1300 TSU students coming from countries such as the USA, UK, Germany, France, Australia, Italy, Poland, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Korea, Columbia, Turkey and others.
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