(:title Praxisorientiertes Lernen und Forschen in der GUS - Practice Oriented Learning and Resesarch in Health Care Environments: Health Disparities)

Kursübersicht "AG 137 Practice Oriented Learning and Resesarch in Health Care Environments: Health Disparities"

Lecturer:

Amy Edmunds M.A.

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Objectives

This course explores the roots of health disparities among marginalized populations. It analyses how socio-cultural determinants of health including gender, race/ethnicity, disability, religion, seniority, economics and institutional factors compound health inequities. It examines multi-level interventions steeped in health literacy, health promotion, social justice, and cultural communication to achieve health equity and promote population health.

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Contents

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Define health disparities.
• Describe why health disparities exist.
• Understand interventions to overcome health disparities.
• Describe the relationship between culture and health.
• Understand the role culture plays in health education/behavior and program planning and evaluation.
• Gain knowledge of health disparities experienced by specific populations in the US as well as discuss barriers and underlying issues accessing appropriate, quality health care experienced by specific cultural and/or racial/ethnic groups.
• Explore the role of public policy and administration to further integrate culturally appropriate strategies in health care.
• Understand health risk: illness and causation and treatment theories (ethnomedical and ethnopsychiatric systems); healing/curing traditions; the relationship between health risk (vulnerability) and sociocultural structures; gender and health; and the meaning of cultural competency.
• Improve skills in cultural competency, critical thinking, analysis, writing and speaking.

Methods

• Regular attendance is essential. You are responsible for all notes, assignments, and information disseminated in class, with or without an excused absence.
• Participation in class discussion is expected. This involves voluntary input.

Prerequisites

Formal: B.A. Student in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences

Contents: Willingness to take an active part in discussons; students must be able to communicate in English.

Assessment:

Exams - 2 @100 pts. Each	200	Weeks 3 & 6
Assignments - 4 @ 25 pts. Each	100	Weeks 1,2,4,5 (homework, class activities)
Group Project: Policy Memo	200
Total	500	points

Assessment:

Your group is requested to prepare a memo for the Prime Minister outlining your vision of a comprehensive strategy to reduce your selected health disparity. Within two pages, the memo should include a minimum of eight citations based on your literature review to determine what we should do to address your selected disparity. It should describe:

1. an overview of your specific health disparity;
2. an explanation of causation;
3. the best argument against the disparity’s existence
4. at least one organization currently addressing the disparity (via web searches or interview with or-ganization personnel);
5. at least one recent national or international media report addressing the disparity;
6. at least one journal publication relevant to the issue;
7. an original intervention or strategies at the policy, community, organizational, and/or individual level that could be implemented to reduce the health disparity. The strategies you propose should target those risk factors that contribute to the health disparity, i.e., why the disparity exist;
8. support for your plan based on class readings, the extant literature and personal experience/observation.

Art	Datum der Leistungserbringung	Prüfungsanmeldung
(bitte Zeitangabe ...Min)		Ende 1. HS*	Ende 2. HS*	individuelles Datum
Klausur: ...Min.	wird vom PA festgelegt*		x	bei Klausur nicht möglich
Test: ...Min.	tt.mm.jj			tt.mm.jj
Präsentation	tt.mm.jj			tt.mm.jj
Hausarbeit	31.01.2018			tt.mm.jj
Andere	tt.mm.jj		x	tt.mm.jj

* Prüfungsamt Termine

Suggested Reading:

Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader, 2nd Edition Thomas A. LaVeist (Editor), Lydia A. Isaac (Editor) ISBN: 978-1-118-04908-2 848 pages