Overview
Description
This course will provide an overview of the health of diverse global populations. Selected topics will illustrate how health and disease are measured and distributed across contexts. Attention will be given to the impact of poverty, social inequalities, and the environment on health, as well as global disease prevention strategies. Although low- and middle-income countries will be emphasized, examples from high-income countries will be included.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
PBH 101PBH 211PBH 281APST 207APST 270ECON 261EPY 440PSY 210STAT 152STAT 352
Corequisites
PBH 473
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Core
CO11, CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- integrate information from multiple sources in order to describe how leading causes of global burden of disease and their major risk factors vary by world region, socio-demographic context, and over time (CO11).
- interpret descriptive measures and graphical representations of occurrence of disease burden globally.
- use epidemiological data to compare and contrast leading causes of disease burden in different contexts and populations, and generate hypotheses and conclusions as to the underlying conditions that might explain differences (CO11).
- analyze prevention strategies used to intervene on key global health risk factors and argue for the effectiveness and limitations of these strategies in generating population-level impact (CO13).