GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES

Undergraduate

This course provides an overview of the growing field of global health including: health care systems and practices; ideas about illness and wellbeing in cross-cultural contexts; issues related to health development; global health inequities; and human rights. It will focus on key political, economic, and cultural factors associated with the nature and magnitude of global health issues such as pandemics, epidemics and endemic disease while paying particular attention to how poverty and a range of inequalities are embodied. The political, socioeconomic, ecological, and cultural complexities of global health issues will be underlined. PREREQUISITE: SOC 1010 or ANTH 1050 with a minimum grade of 60% Three hours a week