This document provides an overview of a course on public health interventions. The course will use different frameworks to classify public health interventions and feature guest speakers who have implemented such interventions in the field. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, a term paper, and a final exam. Recitation sessions will also be part of the grade, where students will be randomly called on to recite and discuss readings. The course covers topics like entitlement frameworks, social protection, capability approaches, social exclusion, and human security over 9 sessions with readings and speakers on each topic. Office hours and email will be available for consultation.

1. Survey of Public Health Interventions Summer 2012-2013
DS 175.83 Leland Joseph R. Dela Cruz
Course Description
This course provides an overview of various public health interventions by situating these interventions
within various classificatory frames. Lectures on these classificatory frames will be supplemented by
inputs from health development practitioners who will discuss their experience of carrying out these
interventions in the field.
Course Requirements and Grading System
4.7 < X :A B+: 4.7 > X > 4.3
4.3 > X > 3.9 :B C+: 3.9 > X > 3.5
3.5 > X > 3.0 :C D: 3.0 > X > 2.0
2.0 > X: F
8 Quizzes: 40%
Term paper: 20%
Finals: 20%
Recitation: 20%
Graded Recitation:
All students are expected to have read the assigned readings before coming to class. Students will be
called at random to recite. In those instances when students volunteer to answer, priority will be given to
those who have not recited recently and then to those individuals with lower grades in the class.
Students will be graded from 0 to 3 each time they go through graded recitation (not all recitation is
graded). Intelligent questions or insights raised in class may be considered graded recitation. The
denominator of graded recitation is fixed at 50 points (unless the rule regarding cellular phones and
beepers applies). Every point in excess of 50 points will add 0.01 to the students’ lowest long test.
Class Policies:
1. Students must identify themselves on their answer sheets for their long tests, finals, and quizzes
only by using the last four digits of their ID number. Students who write their names will not
receive a grade higher than 4.0 for that requirement.
2. Lateness is considered a cut.
3. Students are discouraged from leaving the classroom once the class has started.
4. Students must stand when called to recite.
5. Cellular phones and beepers must be switched off or put on mute mode. Owners of cellular
phones or beepers that ring in the middle of class must step out. If no one acknowledges that it
was his/her cellular phone that went off, the class will be given graded recitation that will increase
the graded recitation denominator.
Consultation Hours:
Consultation may be done after class daily. Students may also send e-mail to the teacher at
ldelacruz@ateneo.edu.

2. DS 175.83
Topic
Session 1 Lecture: AmartyaSen’s Entitlement Framework
2 hours Readings:
April 12 Sen, A. (1999) Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books.
Chapters 4, 7.
Sen. A. (1981). Poverty and Famines:An Essay on Entitlements and
Deprivation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Chapters 1 and 10
• Dreze, Jean; Sen, Amartya; and Hussain, Athar (eds.), The Political
Economy of Hunger. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. Chapter 2 (For more on
entitlements and famines)
Session 2 Quiz 1: AmartyaSen’s Entitlement Framework
3.5 hours Speaker: BotikaBinhi
April 13 Speaker: Conditional Cash Transfers
Session 3 Quiz 2: Speakers on Entitlements
2.5 hours Lecture: Social Protection
April 16 Readings:
World Bank (2001), Social Protection Sector Strategy: From Safety Net to
Springboard.
Holzman, Sherburne-Benz and Tesliuc (2003), Social Risk Management: The
World Bank’s Approach to Social Protection in a Globalizing World.
Session 4 Quiz 3: Social Protection
3.5 hours Speaker: Philhealth
April 17 Speaker: Occupational Health and Safety
Discussion on Social Protection
Session 5 Quiz 4: Speakers on Social Protection
3 hours
April 18 Lecture: AmartyaSen’s Capability Framework
Readings:
Sen, A. (1999) Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books.
Chapters 4, 7.
Nussbaum, Martha and Sen, Amartya (eds.), The Quality of Life. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1993. “Capability and Well-Being” (For more on
capabilities and freedom)
Lecture: Social Exclusion
Reading:
Sen, Amartya (2000). Social Exclusion: Concept, Application and Scrutiny.
Manila: Asian Development Bank.
Session 6 Quiz 6: Social Exclusion
3.5 hours Speaker : Differently-Abled
April 19 Speaker : AIDS
Discussion on Social Exclusion
Session 7 Quiz 7: Speakers on Social Exclusion
2.5 hours Lecture: Human Security
April 20 Reading: Human Security Now. The Final Report of the Commission on
Human Security. 2003.
Session 8 Quiz 8: Human Security
3 hours Speaker: Health in Situations of Armed Conflict
April 23 Speaker: Environmental Health
Session 9 Quiz 9: Speakers on Human Security
1 hour Synthesis Discussion
April 24