Hlth Disparities Across Pops

Catalog description

This is a social science course about health disparities across populations. Students will learn to analyze and identify what it means to live in various geographic locations (national and international), and how place may influence social behavior, and affect the individual’s chance for health and survival. Sociological concepts and their potential influence beyond the individual to communities and vulnerable populations are to be synthesized in this course. This knowledge is critical for effective healthcare practice and for health policy formation and reform for rural and vulnerable populations. This course contextualizes the rural/urban dichotomy relative to industrialization, post-industrialization health and mortality transition.