Global Perspective on Family Health

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This course focuses on factors that influence the health of populations and families globally. The framework for investigation of families is systems theory combined with an interaction and developmental life-cycle theory. Cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic variables that strongly influence family life are identified and analyzed globally. A cross-cultural framework is used to compare the health status of populations & families that affect their health in social subgroups. Global health promotion goes far beyond the efforts of individual countries and the humanitarian attempts of more affluent nations to protect and promote health in developing countries, populations and families and can only be solved through global cooperation.