Community Building and Action on the Social Determinants of Health

Catalog description

The course provides students the opportunity to study community building and organization approaches as a strategy to improve health and increase community capacity to organize around action on the social determinants of health. Special emphasis is given t o the concepts, models and process of community organization and action and the techniques and methods it involves. Through lectures, in -class and field exercises students will learn the main public health theories, models and approaches that underlie community development and organization; and methods for engaging communities, advocacy, and for the building of partnerships. Also, students will apply knowledge for community building techniques. At the end of course, students will be expected to critically assess the use of community building and organization strategies utilizing real community case study to address determinant issues.