Syllabus

Health Care System Research in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Settings

Code
ASR2CK
Points
7.5 Credits
Level
Second Cycle
School
School of Health and Welfare
Subject field
Sexual, Reproductive and Perinatal Health (SRP)
This course can be included in the following main field(s) of study
Sexual, Reproductive and Perinatal Health1
Progression indicator within (each) main field of study
1A1N
Approved
Approved, 11 March 2026.
This syllabus is valid from 11 March 2026.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • apply and adapt evidence-based knowledge about global sexual and reproductive health that is important for health care providers and patients
  • evaluate interventions within health care setting
  • identify multidisciplinary strategies to manage complex challenges within health care systems
  • apply and adapt relevant research programmes and methods for the evaluation of structures relating to equal rights within health care settings
  • define economic concepts relating to health.

Course Content

The course focuses on understanding multidisciplinary strategies and methods for the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based knowledge about sexual and reproductive health that is important for health care providers and patients within health care settings. The course includes economic concepts relating to health care that are used to develop research programmes and to evaluate equal rights within health care settings.

Assessment

  • Written assignments
  • Seminars

Grades

The grading scale used for the final course grade is U–VG.

Grades are reported as follows:

  • Assignments, seminar - 7.5 Credits | U–VG

Entry Requirements

  • A Bachelors degree 180 credits in a social sciences/health sciences/economics main field of study and English 6

Other Information

This is a course in the Master‘s Programme in Global Sexual and Reproductive Health.

This course cannot be counted towards the same degree along with courses that have equivalent content.

If the student has received a decision/recommendation granting study support from Dalarna University because of a disability, then the examiner has the right to offer an alternative examination arrangement. The examiner takes into account the objectives in the course syllabus when deciding whether the examination can be adapted in accordance with the decision/recommendation.