Global Health and Nursing Practice

Catalog description

This elective course is designed to provide students with an introduction to global nursing practice in the context of global health and global health competencies. While immersed within a host country, students will examine the major causes of morbidity and mortality and their variations among high-, middle-, and low-income communities, and the impact of public health efforts to achieve health equity. The effects of globalization on health, health systems, and the delivery of healthcare across the spheres of care for the country will be discussed with an emphasis on social, economic, and environmental determinants of health. The topics of social justice, sociocultural and political contexts of the host country will also be explored.