Priority Health Problems in Puerto Rico

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This course directs the student to evaluate priority health problems in Puerto Rico, such as drug addiction and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Analyze critical issues and place students in their professional roles as community health educator s. Challenge students to reflect, clarify their values, attitudes, and make logical and reasoned decisions about the health problems analyzed. EDSA 4154 Social Determinants of Health. Three (3) credits. This course is designed with the objective of identifying and analyze health and social determinants of health in the context of Health Promotion. The student is guided in the reformulation of the health concept and in the analysis of the elements that comprise it. The field experience that they will carry out requires making a community profile that initiates them in the ability to identify determinants of health and a need assessment in a population assigned. Through group discussion, forums, readings, debates and interviews, students will evaluate the health impact of the social determinants.