CHTH 414  Health and Culture: A Global Perspective: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

(F, Su) This course will provide students with a global perspective of health.Students will assess health conceptions, health-related behavior, sickness distribution, treatment and experience cross culturally. Students will identify and discuss how these concepts are both similar and different across the globe. Theoretically, this course is rooted in the discipline of Medical Anthropology, a growing subfield of Anthropology that seeks to understand how health is shaped by, and experienced in light of, changing socio-cultural, economic, environmental, and geopolitical factors across the globe.

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1. Identify the cultural, social and behavioral aspects of community health initiatives on a global scale: culture, race/ethnicity, poverty disparities, family and social structure, factors related to individual behavior change;
2. Describe the relevance of a cross-cultural perspective when working in a community health or global health setting; ;
3. Create an online public health messaging campaign to diverse audiences;
4. Better express ideas and thoughts orally, in writing, and via digital media