Global Primary Health Care: An Introduction

Catalog description

This course empowers students with foundational knowledge of primary health care. The course will focus on developing a historical, culturally competent understanding to inform current perspectives of primary health care, including a world-view of primary health care models and themes, the role of epidemiology, process of coalition building, impact of health care policy and advocacy and components of emergency preparedness. Students will gain an appreciation of the multiple determinants and system influences that impact deliver¬y and outcomes of primary health care, and will learn how to view health outcome disparities from a multidimensional, and ecological perspective. The course is restricted to Health Science majors. Course Rotaion: NYC & PLV: Fall