Global Health

Catalog description

This course will focus on international health issues. Students will develop a global perspective of the international community, political structures, and health issues. Cooperative, culturally appropriate strategies to international health issues will be discussed and developed. An introduction to global health issues: environmental health, global malnutrition, primary health care, maternal and child health, comparative health care systems, and epidemiology. A specific country/area of study will be chosen by students in order to synthesize specific international health issues and develop potential solutions. There are no prerequisites.