PUBHLT 0444 - HEALTH EQUITY AND THE US HEALTH SYSTEM: WHAT IS AND WHAT COULD BE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
By understanding health inequity across intersecting population characteristics and conditions, and by analyzing the U.S. health system and its policy and management components, students will gain insight as to how each part of the healthcare system both perpetuates health disparities and has a role to play in advancing health equity across populations. In this course, we will build upon students’ basic understanding of health equity and health disparities. Participants will continue to study the definition and history of health equity as a concept and explore a selection of various population characteristics and conditions across which significant health service or health outcomes disparities exist. For each of these, students will study the history underlying the inequity and its current impact on the relevant population, as well as examine how intersectionality of identities may compound or alleviate these disparities. Students will then be introduced to a component of the US healthcare system and examine how it relates to a specific population disparity, including how it may perpetuate the disparity and/or may be leveraged to advance health equity. Invited speakers will allow students to better understand health system components, and how leaders of these organizations and agencies are addressing health inequities.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PUBHLT 0120; LVL: SOPHMORE or ABOVE
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