Title

ANTH2101 - Health, Culture and Diversity

API ID

Credits

3 (3/0/0)

Description

This course meets MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 8. This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the relationship between culture and health, fundamental principles and topics in global health, determinants of health, the identification of critical global health challenges, measures of the global burden of disease, health systems, international public health organizations, and the application of cultural diversity concepts to health promotion.

Competencies

  1. Assess the impact of socio-cultural, environmental, infrastructure, political and technological factors on global health.
  2. Examine and explain the global burden of disease related to the environment, nutrition, maternal and child health, and communicable and non-communicable diseases among the most vulnerable populations.
  3. Compare and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different types of biomedical and ethnomedical health systems across the globe.
  4. Identify and describe the determinants of health, measurements of disease frequency and distribution, and key indicators of health.
  5. Understand the role and work of international organizations that monitor and report on global health threats.
  6. Explain the relevance of cultural awareness and competency in improving global health.
  7. Comprehend basic statistics and research methods and evaluate the statistical claims made in journal articles related to global health.
  8. Summarize how the definition of health and medical treatments have changed over time.

Goal Areas

5. History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences
8. Global Perspective