WS 260 - Women s Health:Problems and Practices

Institution:

University at Buffalo

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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Reviews the health care system in the U.S. and its treatment of women. Content includes a history of health care and the changing definition of health , the current roles of women in this system, and the intersection of the legal system on women s bodies and women s health. Women in the 1970 s and beyond started examining the politics of health care, which exploded into the millennium such as cost containment and restruction of services through managed care; newer and more expensive technologies; growing consumer dissatisfaction with the current system; and trends towards holistic and alternative care outside of the mainstream health care system. Develops an analysis of the current system with a rational plan for improving health care for all women. Addresses the roles that women have played in relation to health and health care, the history of women as healers, the shift to women as patients and consumers, and women as workers, both paid and unpaid, in the system of care.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.buffalo.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 645-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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