Course content

This course is equivalent with ECON4725 – Population Health (discontinued)

The course includes two small modules, one on indicators of the mortality level and the health situation in a population and another on future health challenges.  Additionally, there are four larger modules:

i) Mortality differences between rich countries

ii) How education, income and income inequality influence health and mortality

iii) The importance of family and children for health and mortality

iv) How children’s health and morality are affected by parents’ age, number of siblings and  family stability.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

You will learn about:

  • The construction of indicators of the mortality level and the health situation in a population.
  •  Mortality differences between rich countries and the reasons for these
  • How education, income and income inequality influence health and mortality and   (without much detail) the methods used to analyse this.
  • The importance of family and children for health and mortality.
  • Future health challenges

Skills

In addition to obtaining knowledge about the health situation in rich countries, including some of its most important social determinants, you will get experience with reading (and to some extent finding) original scientific literature of quite different types. This will make it easier for you to stay updated in the area.

General competence

The course will give you knowledge about several issues related to population health and help you stay updated. This will be a valuable platform not only to those who plan to take more specialized or advanced courses in population health later, or who want to work in this area, but also to those primarily oriented towards neighbouring medical or social  science disciplines such as demography, health sociology/economics, epidemiology, and public health.

Admission

Students at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

You can not attend this course if you have already passed specific ECON-courses at a higher level.

Prerequisites

Recommended previous knowledge

Overlapping courses

10 credits overlap with ECON4725 – Population Health (discontinued)

Teaching

Lectures and seminars.

Compulsory tuition activities:

  • A compulsory term paper.

If the compulsory term paper is not approved, you may be given a second attempt to hand in a new term paper/improve the term paper within a short deadline. 

When the compulsory term paper is approved, the result will be registered. The term paper wi