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MDAP 833 - Politics of Public Health

3 credits
Public health involves taking a population-based approach to health problems with a strong focus on ethical principles and issues of social justice both locally and globally.  In this course, traditional public health policies are assessed and challenged using new perspectives emerging from critical medical anthropology and social medicine.  Within this framework, the course explores a number of problems and policy issues, including socioeconomic inequities and their impact on health and access to care, environmental health, women’s health, HIV/AIDS, obesity and diabetes, and the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis and MRSA.  Analysis of these issues includes evaluating the quality of health information in the mass media and considering how political, economic, social, and cultural forces affect public health policy.  In addition to weekly readings and homework assignments, students write a research paper on some area of politics and public health.


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