Resolving Conflict in Health Care Systems: Achieving Peace through Health

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Assess the impacts of poverty and power on the delivery of health care
• Compare and contrast concepts of mediation, arbitration and dispute resolution
• Integrate knowledge of human rights issues and bioethics into conflict resolution solutions and systems for individuals and larger systems
• Create conflict intervention programs based on a systemic understanding of health care conflict
• Analyze health policies that are created to address the needs of the disenfranchised

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Weekly Discussion Posts (SLO 1, 2, 3, 5)	20%
Case Study Analysis #1 (SLO 1)	10%
Case Study Analysis #2 (SLO 3)	10%
Group Project #1: Mediation, Arbitration, or Dispute Resolution Simulation (SLO 2)	10%
Individual Policy Analysis Paper (SLO 1, 3, 5)	10%
Group Project #2: Conflict Intervention Program (SLO 1, 3, 4, 5)	30%
Group Project #2: Final Presentation (SLO 4)	10%
Total	100%

Grading Scale:

Percentage	Letter Grade
94-100	A
90-93	A-
87-89	B+
83-86	B
80-82	B-
77-79	C+
73-76	C
70-72	C-
67-69	D+
63-66	D
60-62	D-
Below 60	F

Attendance/Participation:

This asynchronous course is designed to support your learning through regular engagement with course materials, assignments, and group work. Because we do not meet live each week, your participation is demonstrated by staying current with the modules, completing discussion posts and assignments on time, and staying connected with your assigned group. These activities are important to your success because they help you build understanding, practice course concepts, and learn with and from one another. They are also an important part of your final grade. Consistent participation supports strong performance on graded course components, while limited participation may lower your overall final grade. If you anticipate being unable to complete an assignment or participate in group work, please let me know as soon as possible so we can discuss next steps to support your success in the course.

It is your responsibility to review weekly announcements in Canvas, check in with your group regularly, and stay on top of deadlines so you can continue deepening your learning throughout the course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• Arya, N., & Santa Barbara, J. (2008). Peace through health: How health professionals can work for a less violent world. Kumarian Press.
• Farmer, P. (2005). Pathologies of power: Health, human rights, and the new war on the poor. University of California Press.
• Meier, B. M., & Gostin, L. O. (Eds.). (2020). Foundations of global health & human rights. Oxford University Press.
• Mukherjee, J. S. (2021). An introduction to global health delivery: Practice, equity, human rights (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press