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PUB 563: Global Health Issues

3 credits

Students will explore major global health issues, challenges, programs and policies. Students will analyze current global health priorities, including emerging infectious diseases, poverty, conflicts and emergencies, and health inequity.

Learning Goals

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:- Identify the main issues, key concepts and guiding principles in global health and the relationship between health and development.- Describe the burden of disease and mortality worldwide in multiple dimensions and the most important examples of successful interventions.- Explore the most important environmental threats to health and ways to reduce the global burden of environmental health problems.- Discuss the meaning of human rights approach to health and the most important ethical guidelines. - Examine the effects of war and complex humanitarian emergencies on health - Understand what globalization is and its impact in impoverished countries

*The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.

Sections Offered: Summer 2024, Summer II

Global Health Issues
0304-563-001 M. Martin Jul 8 - Aug 11 Tue 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Online 3

 
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