Health Promotion Programs for Priority Populations

Catalog description

Illness and health do not happen in a vacuum, nor are they distributed randomly throughout society - they are structured by power and privilege. This course examines how systems and relationships of power, privilege and oppression shape health status and research, policy, and practice in health education and health promotion. The course uses historical and sociopolitical perspectives from a variety of fields and disciplines to analyze how institutionalized systems of power and structures of domination, primarily within the United States, work together to drive inequities across social differences of ability, class, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and other groups. Students explore the relationship between health, wealth, poverty, and public policy in the U.S., and assess past and future strategies to remedy health inequities within social groups and communities.