Health Disparities

Catalog description

This course delves deeply into identifying and understanding the social determinants of health with maintaining a particular focus on US minority (soon-to-be the majority) populations and racial/ethnic health disparities. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the course carefully studies the complex ways in which race, ethnicity, class/socioeconomic status, gender, relationships, work conditions, cultural histories, and neighborhoods among other factors (and their intersections) impact health and illness.