This course will provide a broad overview of global patterns of disease, challenges to providing healthcare, and conditions of major public health importance, as well as patterns of global mortality and morbidity. The course will examine issues relating to social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental determinants of health, as well as the inequalities and inequities in the global disease burden. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to critically evaluate determinants of health and population-based interventions, as well as social and institutional responses to these challenges structured through communities, national health systems, and other agencies.
Prerequisite Courses