HEG-215: Global Health and Culture
- 3 Credit Hours
- Health and Physical Education Department
- Summer 2024
Course Description
Global Health is emerging as a critical driver of world change and global sustainable development. This course explores the biosocial theoretical concepts and the historical contexts that are contributors to this shift and are influencing the establishment of global health as a stand alone discipline of study. This course encourages cultural sensitivity and global citizenship. It focuses on challenging embedded assumptions about what actually supports good health and humane healthcare and what actually causes poor health and disease in various cultures around the world. Topics include: history of 19th and 20th century medicine, population health, racism, WHO global regions, UN Sustainable Goals, Global Burden of Disease, health disparities, mental health, indigenous cultures, cultural healing practices and beliefs, contagious diseases, obesity, human rights, natural and complex human disasters.
HEG-215 Sections for Summer 2024
1 Section Offered
HEG-215, Section SL1
Scheduled Meeting Times
Type | Location | Date(s) | Day / Time |
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Lecture | Online | Jun 3rd, 2024 – Aug 9th, 2024 | N/A |
Type | Lecture |
Location | Online |
Date(s) | Jun 3rd, 2024 – Aug 9th, 2024 |
Day / Time | N/A |