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Nov 27, 2024
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EA099 PO - Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Unconvering Local and Global DisparitiesWhen Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
Instructor(s): G. Douglass-Jaimes
Credit: 1
Where you live impacts how well and how long you live. Yet the social, political, and environmental processes that determine who gets to live where, and what the conditions are in those places provide insights into the drivers for global health disparities. By examining how race, identity, and place operate in the US and Brazil, we can better understand the social processes that create disparities in health. Further, focusing on informal settlements, places that are thought to embody these disparities (areas often referred to as slums, shantytown, favelas), helps to highlight these the complex interrelated themes of place, health and identity. This course is designed to provide a broad investigation of urban health equity while focusing the key role that identity formation and place-making have in both creating health disparities and community responses to ameliorate those disparities. In this course, students will engage with theoretical and practical tools that serve to unmask local and global health disparities. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 2
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