HS 310 Determinants and Disparities in Public Health: from Global to Local

This course introduces students to the social and systemic factors affecting individual and population health. We will define key concepts of health equity/inequity and social justice with a focus on relating broad trends in global health to local examples in our state and region. The course will cover determinants of health inequity including childhood/motherhood, environment, occupation, gender/sexual orientation and identity, race and ethnicity, socio-economic, nutrition, and disability. The often, complex impact of these determinants will then be applied to case studies of "diseases of disparity," with examples in tropical disease, infectious disease, chronic diseases, violence, and substance abuse. We will conclude with an overview of strategies for organizational and communal change through public health practice. As an introductory course, it is intended to generate ideas and provide a background for the further study of health inequity, whether as public health practitioners, researchers or those with a career in the health sciences.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

HS 300