Urban Health and Disparities

Catalog description

This is an interdisciplinary course combining perspectives from Urban Affairs, Public Health, and Sociology. The course will provide students with a framework for investigating urban health and how it is shaped by and impacts demographic forces such as race and class. The disparities in American and global cities which impact public health and the provision of health care will be examined. Urban health disparities on phenomena such as physical, mental, and social health, food security, transportation, and crime will be examined. The role of disenfranchised communities in creating healthy cities will be examined.