Women's Health, Gender And Empowerment

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• A.[KNOWLEDGE]: To expand students’ understanding of the interconnected cultural, demographic, social, and economic factors that influence women’s health and empowerment globally. B.[KNOWLEDGE]: To gain knowledge of the historical and present-day contexts of politics, policies, and laws related to women’s health outcomes, human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, and gender inequities. C.[SKILLS]: To critically engage with contrasting perspectives and changing paradigms about women’s health and empowerment among epidemiologists, clinicians, public health experts, demographers, economists, human rights activists, and development specialists. D.[SKILLS]: Assess policies, development frameworks and case studies of interventions designed to improve women’s health and empowerment in differing cultural and national contexts with specific attention to gender norms.
• Identify and analyze gender inequities in health care needs and access to care. Explain the ways in which social, economic, and cultural factors can both promote and impede women’s and girls’ health. Examine how girls’ education contributes to individual, community, and national development. Critically examine how gender and women’s empowerment is addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals and other development frameworks Evaluate case studies of interventions designed to improve women’s health and empowerment in differing cultural and national contexts and recommend improvements Compare macro level political, institutional, and structural factors that influence women’s health and empowerment in relation to local, cultural, and regional contexts Identify the major institutions and non-governmental organizations that influence women’s health and empowerment and suitable approaches for implementing interventions to ensure gender equity Assess the impact of women’s health on advances in other sectors including child health, education, economic development, and social stability Analyze case studies applying the relevant historical context of politics, policies, and laws related to women’s health and human rights. Analyze the contrasting perspectives and changing paradigms among epidemiologists, public health experts, demographers, economists, human rights activists and development specialists related to women’s health and empowerment

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