Health Equity & Social Determinants of Health

Catalog description

Students investigate the role of social and community factors that contribute to health inequities. Students identify neighborhood characteristics such as poverty or access to care that play a critical role in higher negative health outcomes within at-risk populations. Examination of these complex public health issues using evidence-based approaches, frameworks and models, and research methods. Course activities promote critical thinking skills to discover root causes of health inequities and to examine interventions intended to eliminate disparate health conditions within neighborhoods or specific populations. prereq: 2561