HE 201Women's Health Issues

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Students will explore health issues that relate specifically to women. Topics will include women and the health care system, mental health, drugs, alcohol and smoking, menstruation, mid-life and older women’s health, sexuality, fertility and infertility, childbearing, politics of disease, violence against women, and body image, food and nutrition. Each of the topics will be explored in relation to poverty, ageism, racism, and sexism. (UC, CSU, AVC)