Global Health - Elements, Issues, and Trends

Catalog description

This course investigates current global health issues and trends. You will explore several specific global health issues such as communicable disease, chronic disease, malnutrition, water and sanitation, violence against women, and child health. You will investigate causes of and trends in these issues as well as research and brainstorm potential solutions, including global policy. You will assess global health topics from the perspective of social, economic, environmental, and cultural determinants of health and through a lens of health equity.