Public Health
PHEAL 320 Urban Health (4)
A significant challenge for current public health practitioners is identifying and understanding the social determinants of health that contribute to disease patterns. Grounded in the urban and medical sociology literature, this course interrogates how policies, plans and designs that create our built environments in cities and communities result in differential exposures, health behaviors, and health outcomes across demographics and space. Each semester, a major theme will be chosen such as transportation systems or housing (see instructor for the term plan). Students will learn how these built environments are shaped by political and social environments; how the resulting built environments create differential exposures and behavior changes; and the public health outcomes of concern. Embedded into the course are field work days for data collection and analysis skills through a range of audit-like methodologies.
- General Education Fulfillment: Social Sciences
- Prerequisite: PHEAL 201
- Offering: Alternate years, Fall semester
- Instructor: Iroz-Elardo