COURSES OFFERED IN THE COLLECTIVE HEALTH GRADUATE PROGRAM
Line of research: Social construction of access to health: Interfaces between subjects, rights and policies.
This line of action explores the links between human rights, access to the right to health and justice, and its multiple understandings and repercussions on institutions and individuals. It pays special attention to intersectional discrimination, structural violence and institutional failures and how they have daily reproduced and produced violations of rights and crystallized inequities and injustices that are harmful to health. To this end, it seeks to apply human rights contributions to the understanding and direction of health issues in policies, health and justice representations and practices, and their implications for citizenship and health conditions. In this sense, it has worked on the production of technical and scientific materials in the scope of research, teaching and extension, exploring this innovative dialogue, in the following subjects: judicialization of health; access to health and justice, especially access to medicines and health services; health of persons deprived of liberty; women’s, transgender’s, adolescents’ health; sexual and reproductive rights and health, HIV / AIDS.
APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN HEALTH
Program: Conceptions, Theories and Human Rights Guarantee System. Human Rights, Vulnerability and Health. Human Rights and the Right to Health.
This course aims to raise and discuss the possibilities and limits of contextualization of the relations between Human Rights and Collective Health, as well as discussing the possible theoretical-conceptual articulations and applications in practical situations based on the multiplicity of approaches by which Human Rights are treated, in the context of graduate health courses.
RESEARCH ETHICS
Program: Research ethics in Public Health; Integrity in research and ethics in publication; Ethical principles of research in human beings; General regulation of research ethics in Brazil. Brazilian regulatory system; Application of ethical standards; Conflict of interest and research activity.
This course aims to: identify and reflect on the main ethical issues involving research in Collective Health. It presents the main normative contents and the ethical analysis procedure provided in Brazilian regulations on the subject. Ethical standards on research integrity. Identification and development of ethical aspects of research projects.
HUMANITIES AND COLLECTIVE HEALTH
Program: Humanities. Social and Human Sciences in Health and its Historical Context. Classical Matrices of Sociology - Marx, Weber and Durkheim. Currents of Thought: Positivism, Materialism, Comprehensive Theories, Systemic Thinking. Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives (Berger & Luckmamm, Habermas, Bourdieu, Foucault, Castells).
This course aims to: configure the theme of Humanities as an ethical-political perspective in Collective Health. To articulate basic conceptual and methodological knowledge in this field to research and study in Collective Health. To present the main currents of humanistic thought and the classical and contemporary theoretical matrices of the human and social sciences. To enable the survey and reading of authors and bibliographies that can be used as a reference for dissertations and theses.
GLOBAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Program: Global Health. Human Rights. Globalization. Global Governance. Universal Access to Health Care. Social Movement. Stigma, Discrimination, HIV / AIDS. Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Refugee Rights. Ethical and Political Dilemmas.
This course aims to: analyze issues related to global health and its links with human rights based on the historical construction and socio-political dimensions of these fields. To discuss the main challenges related to political processes and social struggles in globalization and their repercussions for public health and human rights. To identify the main theoretical and practical challenges and present critical conceptual and methodological possibilities for analysis and responses to current challenges.