Health Inequities

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Graduate Students Only This course will provide an overview of inequities in health services, as well as current initiatives to address them. The course will cover some of the historical aspects of inequities in health services, such as legal segregation of health care facilities and how race/ethnicity and sexual identity have been conceptualized over time. We will examine what are some of the factors associated with unequal access and quality of general medical care, as well as mental health care and services for substance use disorders.