Classes

SBS 514 Reducing Socioeconomic & Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Health Concepts, Models, Effective Strategies

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2016

This course provides a critical overview of conceptual approaches and empirical evidence for interventions that take a social determinants approach to reduce socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health status. The focus is on the extent to which policies and interventions on the social determinants of health can both improve health and reduce disparities. It considers interventions within the healthcare system, but emphasis is given to population-based interventions on the social determinants of health in multiple other societal sectors.

SBS 207 Race, Ethnicity and Health

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2016

Health outcomes in the U.S. vary dramatically as a function of race and ethnicity. The purpose of this course is to address the possible pathways by which such disparities in health status arise at different stages in the life cycle. The course will highlight research that explores this issue from social, behavioral and psychological perspectives, as well as ideas about the meaning of race and ethnicity in American society. Students will be asked to develop their own research ideas that might help illuminate the nature of specific health disparities. Course Activities: Lectures, class...

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AAAS 197 Poverty, Race, and Health

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2016

This course critically examines the health status of the poor, and of African Americans and other socially disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups in the US. Attention will be focused on the patterned ways in which the health of these groups is embedded in the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts, and arrangements of US society. Topics covered include the meaning and measurement of race, the ways in which racism affects health, the historic uses of minorities in medical research, how acculturation and migration affects health, and an examination of the specific health problems...

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