Sociocultural Influences on Health

3 Hours

Focus on factors associated with inequities in health status, health care, and health policies. Use an ecological approach to explore relationships among individual characteristics such as gender, education, income, literacy, race, ethnicity, culture, acculturation, disability, age, and sexual orientation. Examine interpersonal factors such as communication with health care providers, family and social ties, and discrimination as well as societal-level factors such as neighborhood and community context, health care organizations, economics, politics, and policies. Seek to understand how those factors shape health behaviors, access to health care services, and health status locally, nationally, and globally. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.