Population ageing: a global health crisis?

This free course, Population ageing: a global health crisis?, focuses on two major issues of our time – ageing societies and global health. It provides you with an introduction to ageing societies and their implications for global health – implications which are only just beginning to be fully understood. The course will help you to deepen your understanding of ageing societies across the globe and the different components of the concept of global health. You will also explore the ways in which population ageing is often framed as a crisis and begin to develop your own ideas about the implications of population ageing.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Introducing population ageing
• 1 Introducing population ageing
• 2 Population ageing: what is it and why is it important?
• 2 Population ageing: what is it and why is it important?
• 2.1 Population ageing across the world
• 3 So, what is global health?
• 3 So, what is global health?
• 3.1 ‘Global health’, ‘international health’ and ‘public health’
• 4 Population ageing: a global health success?
• 4 Population ageing: a global health success?
• 5 Population ageing: the challenges for global health
• 5 Population ageing: the challenges for global health
• 6 Population ageing and global forces
• 6 Population ageing and global forces
• 6.1 How does globalisation impact on health?
• 6.2 How does globalisation impact on health of older people?
• 7 Global cooperation: a way forward?
• 7 Global cooperation: a way forward?
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements