SOC 450 - Health Disparities

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SOC 151 or ANTH 211 or instructor permission
Explores health status and healthcare disparities across groups based on race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status/social class, nativity, refugee and citizen status, and other cultural and demographic characteristics. Uses a social determinants of health perspective to consider how social, cultural, environmental, political, and economic conditions produce unequal and inequitable health outcomes, with special focus on disadvantaged populations. Addresses agency and empowerment of populations seeking and accessing health and healthcare. Includes different levels of public health interventions that can improve health outcomes, better calibrate access to healthcare, and improve health equity within populations. (Also offered as ANTH 450; may not be taken for duplicate credit.)