Disability and Public Health

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Public health seeks to improve the health of populations, but has not always understood the ethical impact of its role for approximately 20 percent of the world's people with congenital or acquired diseases or disabilities. This course will examine the ways in which living with a disease or disability is, and is not, strictly a health problem. Using the same framework that argues for public health to combat poverty, pollution, and unsafe work places, this course will examine the environmental and policy, as well as ethical, medical and health care implications for the well-being of people with chronic diseases and disabilities.