Social Determinants of Health. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

The World Health Organization has said, "Social justice is a matter of life and death." This course explores the connections between health equity and social justice. To do this, we: 1) assess how health equity, inequities, and disparities are conceptualized; 2) examine social determinants of health inequities with a focus on structural factors like racism, capitalism, and colonization and their intersections; 3) discuss past and present evidence-based policies and community-based efforts to achieve health equity through social justice in areas like housing, employment, and education.