MD ID 6640 (2020/2021) 01/21/2021-04/08/2021

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Course
MD ID 6640 - Health Disparities and Public Health
Description
This course focuses on the impact of health disparities on public health. Disparities related to all facets of life can affect health status and health behaviors. Students will learn to identify connections between individual- and community-level health disparities and community health. This course is being offered through the Division of Public Health, and provides a foundational education experience in a topic that is germane to all health care profession students. It is being offered as a medical student elective and is a requirement for those medical students completing the Graduate Certificate in Tribal, Rural and Underserved (TRU) Medicine.

This course addresses the often spoken of yet insufficiently addressed area of health disparities, a broad field that touches almost every American across their life span. As the present course concentrates on the provision of a comprehensive overview, interested students will be able to continue to identify the underpinnings of inequity in the population of their choice, when a need for focus arises in their academic endeavors.

Several key philosophies about health, and its fundamental place in achieving human potential, guide this course:

•First, health can only be fully understood in an ecologic context when biologic psychological, social, cultural, economic political and social perspectives are integrated
•Second, disparities give us important snapshots that can shape needed modification and leadership gaps as they influence all three functions of public health: assessment, policy development and assurance of health services.
•Third, medical students interested in careers in TRU medicine and in health promotion and disease prevention within these communities must make a commitment to address health disparities in their day-to-day practice of medicine. Steps to be taken will be addressed in the class, but a strong will to highlight and face overburden of need will be required.

Academic Year
2020/2021
Start Date
01/21/2021
End Date
04/08/2021
Block
SPRING
Department
MD ID
Permission Required
No
Section Credits
1.5
Min Openings
1
Max Openings
10
School Years
MSIMSIIMSIII
Course Classifications
ELECTIVE
Coordinator(s)
SPENCER,OLIVIA DC | olivia.spencer@hsc.utah.edu
Directors(s)
Lopez,Ivette DD | ivette.lopez@utah.eduSandweiss,David DD | david.sandweiss@hsc.utah.edu
Possible Grade(s)
Fail (F)Pass (P)
Prerequisites
None
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