Health Issues in the Hispanic World

Catalog description

This course presents students with disparities in health care among minority and Hispanic communities. In the course students will study how disproportionate care affects Hispanics, why there exists such a gap in care, and what might be done to level the playing field in care received from health care professionals. Hispanic beliefs towards care, cultural approximations to seeking care, and varying customs about what works in medicine will be examined. Also, a study of which issues in health care are dominant in the Hispanic community will be studied.