Ethics and Equity in Health and Medicine

What makes a good health professional? In this subject, students will explore and develop two central skills of health practice beyond technical expertise: ethical understanding and addressing social equity. Marginalisation and disadvantage have long impacted patients’ interactions with healthcare. Substantial inequalities in health continue today shaped by social, structural, and commercial factors. In this subject, students will learn about ethics and equity within the health sector, and the power of health workers to make changes when inequity has been entrenched into health systems and policies. Students will investigate a range of real-world case studies to generate insights into good healthcare practice.