PRINCIPLES OF POPULATION HEALTH: DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the multiple determinants of health and what it means for such determinants to produce health and health disparities. Audience: Graduate 2. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the optimal allocation of resources across health determinants for the improvement of health and reduction of health disparities and to understand how such resource allocation relates to fundamental economic principles. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the roles of socioeconomic status, behavior, medical care, and community on the production of health at individual and population levels and to appreciate the broad range of social determinants of health. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate understanding of the different ways in which individual health and population health are conceived and measured, and how particular subpopulations often have special health considerations. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the multiple determinants of health and what it means for such determinants to produce health and health disparities. Audience: Graduate 2. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the optimal allocation of resources across health determinants for the improvement of health and reduction of health disparities and to understand how such resource allocation relates to fundamental economic principles. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the roles of socioeconomic status, behavior, medical care, and community on the production of health at individual and population levels and to appreciate the broad range of social determinants of health. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate understanding of the different ways in which individual health and population health are conceived and measured, and how particular subpopulations often have special health considerations. Audience: Graduate