Advanced Diploma in International Health Management and Policies and Health Sovereignty

CLASS 1: Empirical-functional paradigm from biomedicine to public health

Teaching Coordinator: Leny Trad (ISC-UFBA, Brazil) and Gonzalo Basile (FLACSO RD - CLACSO)

Content
Biomedicine and the hegemonic biomedical model. Functional empirical paradigm in public health - Functionalist Public Health -

Objectives
- To understand the epistemic-theoretical processes of construction of the functional empirical paradigm of Western Biomedicine to functionalist Public Health
- Identify the relationship between the process of capitalist expansion and the expansion of the functionalist public health model in Latin America and the Caribbean.

- To study this relationship through various historical cases and the understanding of health-disease processes: yellow fever, malaria, hookworm and cholera.

CLASS 2: Foundations of Latin American Critical Thinking in Health in the 21st Century

Teaching Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile (FLACSO, CLACSO) and Oscar Feo (Venezuela)

Content
Intersections between Social Sciences, Health Sciences, and Latin American and Caribbean Critical Thought. Critical Theory in Health. Foundations of Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health in the 20th Century. Latin American Critical Thought in Health.
Socio-environmental Determination of Health and Differences with Determinants.

Objectives:
- To understand the foundational epistemic intersections of Latin American critical thinking on health in the 21st century
- Identify the various currents of critical theory in health in the 20th and 21st centuries in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Study the theoretical framework of the social determinants of health, identifying the differences with the concept of determinants and risk factors.

CLASS 3: Feminist Theories and Collective Health. Race, Gender, and Health

Coord. Teacher: Leny Trad (Instituto Saúde Coletiva-UFBA Brazil), Diana Anunciação Santos and Roberta Godim (ABRASCO, Brazil) and Odeth Santos (UNAM, Mexico). Guest Professors: Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso (Dominican Republic) and Ochy Curiel (UNC, RD)

Content
Feminist Theories and Decolonial Feminism – Gender Approach and Perspectives. Intersectionality. Critical Theory of Ethnicity, Gender, Social Class and Collective Health.

Objectives:
- To understand the historical processes of construction of the paradigm of Modernity, Coloniality, Capitalism and Patriarchy.
- Identify the hierarchical orders established by colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy.
- To address the foundations of feminist and decolonial feminist theories
- Identify the differences between sexuality and gender perspective.
- Recognize the cycles of expansion of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in the approach to gender. Development Theory.

CLASS 1: Introduction to Critical Epidemiology

Course Coordinator: Oscar Feo (Venezuela). Guest Lecturer: Jaime Breilh (Ecuador)

Content
The evolution of the field of Epidemiology: theories, perspectives, and approaches. Critical/sociocultural epidemiology for the study of the International Determinants of Health. International epidemiology as a field of geopolitical action, public policy, and knowledge: South-South / North-South / Global directionality? Conceptual frameworks and analytical models.

Objectives
- To understand the field of epidemiology, its theories, approaches, and paradigms.
- Reflect on the application of critical and sociocultural epidemiology for the study.
- International Determinants of Health.
- International (critical) epidemiology as a field of geopolitical action, public policy and as a field of knowledge: South-South / North-South / Global directionality? Conceptual schemes and models of analysis.

CLASS 2: Design and Epidemiological Studies

Coord. Teacher: Naomar Almeida Filho (Brazil) and Pedro Luis Castellanos (Dominican Republic)

Content
Epidemiological measures. Study design. Combined studies. Qualitative and quantitative methodology. Social research in public health.
Objectives:
- To study methodological strategies from the perspective of Latin American epidemiology
- To know the types of epidemiological study designs

CLASS 3: Epidemiology of Cities

Teaching Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile - Guest Professor: Luisa Iñiguez (Cuba)

Content
Urban planning, inequality, and health. Epidemiology of cities. The right to the city. Critical geography - Social geography - Theories of space

Objectives:
- To understand the field of epidemiology and health in cities.
- To problematize the theories of space and social geography for the field of critical epidemiology
- To understand the study of urbanism, lifestyles, and unequal epidemiological profiles

CLASS 1: Health as a colonial and international issue From health colonialism to the public health of the modern state

Teaching Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile (FLACSO RD)

Content:
The evolution of health as an international issue: origin, characteristics, and dimensions. Early 20th century: the emergence of International Health in our continent, cholera versus yellow fever, mercantilism versus quarantines, militarization of medicine.
Colony, Diseases and Trade. Foundational matrix of health issues in the international sphere.

Objectives
- To understand the historical processes that positioned health as an international issue, and its relationship with colonialism and capitalism.
- Relate this context to the creation, development and current role of the WHO international medical authority and the PAHO-WHO regional authority in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Identify the different historical stages and paradigms of the World Health Organization (WHO) since its birth in 1948.

CLASS 2: Pan American International Health (SIP): Pan American Doctrine and Theory of Health Development

Teaching Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile (FLACSO-CLACSO)

Content
Pan-Americanism Theory – Development and Health Theory – Pan-American International Health: meanings and historical trajectories. Epidemics and endemics, borders and nation-states. Foreign policy, intergovernmental relations, and global actors in Pan-American health.

Objectives
- Recognize the conceptual foundations of Pan American International Health
- Analyze the theory of health development in Latin America and the Caribbean
- To delve deeper into the transformations produced in nation-states and health systems within the framework of Pan-Americanism and health development.
- Identify the different historical stages and paradigms of the Pan-American health doctrine since its birth in 1902.
- Relate this context to the creation, development and current role of PAHO/WHO in Latin America and the Caribbean

CLASS 3: Liberal Global Health (LGH). Globalization and the acceleration of the commodification of life

Teaching Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile (FLACSO-CLACSO) and Oscar Feo (Venezuela) / Guest Lecturer: Anne Emmanuel Birn (Canada)

Content
The foundations of structural change in the Health Sector – Neoliberal globalization and the emergence of Global Health – Global health: meanings and historical trajectories, key dimensions and new global actors – The role of human rights and gender in the transition from Pan-American international health to liberal global health – Philanthrocapitalism

Objectives
- Analyze the emergence and expansion of the concept of Global Health with its Actors, contents, agenda and geopolitics.
- To understand the implications of philanthrocapitalism on health
- To critically examine the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly those related to the health sector. This involves reviewing the perspectives from which these agendas are constructed, their geopolitical implications, and their purpose and rationale.
- To study the development of the Medical-Industrial-Pharmaceutical-Financial Complex (CMIFF) and the acceleration of financialization and profit in health

CLASS 1: International Determinants of Health

Teaching Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile (Argentina).

Content
International Determinants of Health. International Epidemiology as a field of geopolitical action, public policy, and knowledge: South-South / North-South / Global Directionality? Conceptual Frameworks and Analytical Models.

Objectives
- Characterize the International Determinants of Health category.

CLASS 2: Epistemologies of Health from the South: towards a decolonial and epistemological turn

Academic Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile. Guest Professor: Rafael Bautista (Bolivia)

Content
Theorizing South-South International Health: Dimensions, principles, and central theses. Differences between decolonial and postcolonial approaches. The four epistemic ruptures in health from the South. Epistemologies of the South in international health.

Objectives
- Recognize the epistemic foundations of Health from the South.
- Describe the dimensions of Health from the South: Coloniality of Power and Knowledge, Health Dependency, and from a North-South geopolitics to a South-South one
- To problematize the conceptual-methodological implications and epistemic ruptures of the Epistemologies of Health from the South.

CLASS 3: Regional Integration and the Health Sovereignty Strategy

Course Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile. Guest Lecturers: Consuelo Paz (Chile) and Nayar Lopez (Mexico)

Content
Theory of Autonomy and Regional Integration. Dependency and Disconnection Theory. Main Latin American and Caribbean intellectual traditions and their contribution to the regionalization of public policies, especially in international health. Regional integration for health sovereignty: as a strategy, policy, tensions, challenges, and limitations. Development of various regional health initiatives such as MERCOSUR, UNASUR, the Andean Community (ORAS), SICA-COMISCA, CARICOM, ALBA, and CELAC: differences and points of convergence. Case study of UNASUR Health: its contributions and limitations in terms of attempts to build a new, emancipatory health diplomacy.

Objectives
- Understanding the progress and challenges in Health Sovereignty: the role of regional integration and South-South networks.
- To reflect on the main Latin American intellectual traditions and their contribution to the process of regionalization of policies, especially in health.
- To understand and analyze the regional integration process, the tensions and limitations, and to identify the process of formation of the different regional blocs, and their main characteristics and purposes.

CLASS 1: Structural Change in the Health Sector and Cycles of Neoclassical Reforms to Health Systems

Teaching Coordinators: Antonio Hernández (El Salvador), Juan Pablo Murillo (Peru), Samuel Arias (Colombia) and Odeth Santos (Mexico)
Content
The process of agenda building and reform cycles for Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean. Pension systems. Social protections. Role of international organizations: World Bank, IDB, IMF, and PAHO/WHO. Structural change in the health sector. Theory of structured pluralism. Universal health coverage and health insurance systems. Case studies: Chile, Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.

Objectives
- Link the Health Sector reform agenda to the 1st and 2nd State Reform.
- Understand the components of the update of the global agenda for social risk management, the theory of structured pluralism and its relationship with reforms in health and social security systems.
- Identify the roles and functions of multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, IDB, PAHO/WHO, and international cooperation agencies in health system and policy reforms

CLASS 2: Epistemology of Refounding Health Systems in the 21st Century

Course Coordinator: Gonzalo Basile (Argentina). Guest Professor: Rafael Bautista Segales (Bolivia)

Content
Redefining Health Systems. Dimensions of Health Systems in the 21st Century. Theorizing on the Refounding of Health Systems. Decolonization of the State, decolonization of Health Systems Theories and Policies. Universal Systems.

Objectives
- To understand the foundations of the decolonization of the State
- To problematize the purpose and reasons for Health Systems in the 21st century
- Reflecting on Universal Systems in the 20th Century and Universal and Intercultural Health Systems in the 21st Century
- To study the epistemological foundations of the Refounding of Health Systems

CLASS 3: New Organizational and Territorial Architectures of Health Systems: From the myth of PHC to Comprehensive Health Care, from Integrated Networks to System-Network Mapping

Teaching Coordinators: Oscar Feo (Venezuela) – Antonio Hernández (El Salvador) – Marco Valencia (Bolivia) – Juan Carlos Verdugo (Guatemala)

Content
Organizational Models of Biomedical Curative Care – Production of Health Care – Care Spiral – Primary Health Care – Comprehensive Care – Health Networks – Territories and Systems-Network

Objectives
- Identify the organizational models of curative-assistance biomedical care
- To understand the components of the comprehensive preventive-promotional strategies: Subject-Family-Community-Territory
- Analyze the differences between Primary Health Care and Comprehensive Health Care.
- Study the territorial construction of Network Systems
- Study the financing methods for systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Classes will begin in April and will conclude in July 2024.

All registered participants will receive the necessary instructions to access the classes, bibliography and discussion forums through the CLACSO Virtual Training Space.

Accessing and navigating the Virtual Learning Environment is very simple and user-friendly. In any case, a technical and academic support team will always be available to you.

Exceptional criteria: In exceptional cases, and within the first month of the start of the Advanced Diploma program, students may request to withdraw from the cohort and rejoin the following year. In all cases, the reasons for the request must be submitted in writing. After that period of time has elapsed since the start of the course, no requests will be accepted.

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