HS186-7-SU-CO:
Advocacy, Activism and Resistance
2022/23
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus
Summer
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 24 April 2023
Friday 30 June 2023
15
07 September 2022
Requisites for this module
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Advocacy is a central tenet of the philosophies and practices of healthcare provisioning and central to the critical study and engagement with global public health.
Drawing on the principles of social justice, this module encourages students to critically consider what it means to be an advocate for the right to health of people who are seeking to access and use health services, and to explore strategies to constructively and actively resist those practices and policies that have detrimental consequences for groups of people.
This module enables student to work in partnership with citizens and service users to appraise, challenge and, where appropriate, resist in a variety of approaches the political, professional and organisational assumptions and practices that can discriminate against, perpetuate inequalities in, and limit access to services and care for communities, groups and individuals.
1. Critically analyse the practices and consequences of structural, political, organisational and cultural discrimination and proactively challenge these when observed or reported.
2. Identify and critically analyse approaches to advocacy, negotiation and escalation and proactively work with people, citizens and service users with protected characteristics to ensure equitable access to healthcare and other services.
3. Critically assess the consequences of an organisation’s policies and procedures based on people’s experiences and identify and assess mechanisms that can be used to challenge organisational policies and influence organisational change.
4. Appraise the consequences of legislation, public policy and health and social care policies based on people’s experiences, and identify mechanisms that can be used to challenge public policy and influence policy change.
5. Demonstrate the development of political awareness and courageous, compassionate person-centred activism and solidarity with people and colleagues.
6. Demonstrate an openness to receiving and responding to a diversity of feedback and be capable of explaining the rationale that influences their judgments and decisions in routine, complex and challenging situations.
Principles of social justice.
Principles of intersectionality.
Participation models in health & social care.
Models of advocacy.
Practical approaches to supporting people to raise concerns and negotiate change.
Working with and supporting people and their families in partnership to develop agreed goals.
Critical analysis of the principles of health economics and resource allocation in health care organisations.
Models of disability and disability rights movements.
Identifying vulnerable groups in society and critically exploring the barriers to their access to health and social care.
Tension between ethical and diverse professional positions and conscientious objections.
Impact on the delivery of care of hierarchy, interprofessional rivalry and power differentials.
Understanding and working with moral distress.
Critical analysis of power relationships in health and social care.
Lectures and flipped classroom:
Students will engage in interactive lectures that introduce and critically question the principles and concepts associated with social justice, advocacy delivered by keynote speakers, researchers and people with lived experience. Between taught days, flipped classroom and technology-enhanced learning activities will introduce digital stories that illuminate the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups as they seek to access health and social care and other public services.
Workshops:
People with lived experiences of using services will be supported to facilitate illustrative workshops. Opportunities to create lasting links with third sector and user-led organisations (ULOs) will be available.
Students will be required to keep a reflective personal log of their experiences and observations during this module (assessed).
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Shakespeare, T. (2014)
Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited. 2nd edition. New York, NY: Routledge. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1524194.
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Charlton, J.I. (1998)
Nothing About Us Without Us. Berkerley, CA: University of California Press. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=224299.
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Mahlin, M. (2010) ‘Individual patient advocacy, collective responsibility and activism within professional nursing associations’,
Nursing Ethics, 17(2), pp. 247–254. Available at:
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=phl&AN=PHL2150868&site=eds-live&authtype=sso&custid=s9814295.
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Morley, G. and Jackson, J. (2017) ‘Is the art of nursing dying? A call for political action’,
Journal of Research in Nursing, 22(5), pp. 342–351. Available at:
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/192257391/Full_text_PDF_accepted_author_manuscript_.pdf.
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Abbasinia, M., Ahmadi, F. and Kazemnejad, A. (2020) ‘Patient advocacy in nursing: A concept analysis’,
Nursing Ethics, 27(1), pp. 141–151. Available at:
https://journals-sagepub-com.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1177/0969733019832950.
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Salvage, J. and White, J. (2019) ‘Nursing leadership and health policy: everybody’s business’,
International Nursing Review, 66(2), pp. 147–150. Available at:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/inr.12523.
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The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
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Prof Theodore Schrecker
Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University
Professor of Global Health Policy
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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