ISF 100K
Health, Wealth, Love and Happiness
Health, wealth, love, and happiness are the most desirable yet tenuous elements of a satisfying life. To achieve them, there has been an overemphasis on wealth accumulation or economic growth. But does economic growth automatically translate into health, love, and happiness? When our environment is degraded with an increasing depletion of natural resources, can we live healthily and happily? Is economic growth sustainable without a healthy planet and healthy people? How do we achieve health, wealth, love, and happiness without harming nature and society? This course will critically examine these and other questions from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Topics
- Upon completion of this course, students will learn about: • the main concepts, theories and controversies linking health to broader social and economic development; • the social, political, demographic and epidemiologic determinants of health in relation to levels of economic development; • the effect of economic policy, globalization, climate change, and urbanization on health; • the main components of an effective healthcare policy; • how to compare health policies of different countries; • how policy shapes health and development in the developed and the developing world how health inequities within and between countries affect human development.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027