ANSC 4320 Global Health
Global health recognizes that determinants of health encompass problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries. Moreover, effective global health interventions transcend unilateral disciplinary limitations. This course approaches global health from a multidisciplinary (public health and anthropology) perspective to understand the successes and failures of the global health approach, its impact on individual lives, and how scholars and practitioners can work together to improve human health. We will consider how health is influenced by factors such as age, gender, culture, race/ethnicity, social class, and geography. Public health problems and their solutions will be analyzed in light of individual risk factors as well as larger structural forces, and we consider the rights of the individual versus the welfare of the public. We examine the ways our understandings of health and well-being shape, and are shaped by, the health care system, our own values, and our assumptions. Catholic social teaching will be considered in relation to these topics where appropriate.
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As needed