Addressing and intervening on social determinants of nutrition inequity

Catalog description

This course will ask students to look above and beyond the individual level for societal factors influencing population- and individual-level nutritional status. It will discuss people's nutrition behaviors, dietary choices, and nutritional status in the context of the larger social environments wherein they live and work every day. Approaches that consider policy, systems, and environmental change for improving nutrition will be introduced using both domestic and international case studies. Students will be asked to understand, apply, and make connections among the social gradients that characterize health and nutrition in both clinical and public health programs or interventions. Students will be taught how to develop tailored nutrition programs or interventions using social and behavioral information underlying a nutrition situation, as well as evidence-based characteristics of effective campaigns.