PUBH 524 - Ameliorating Disparities in the Public's Health

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University of Pennsylvania

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Morssink. This course is a follow-up on the provost-sponsored seminar series that ran from 2003 to 2006. The title of the first seminar in 2003, Ameliorating Health Disparities: An Excerise in Futility or a Tool for Real Social Change, captures the reason for providing this course. Health disparities are a fact of social and professional life. Addressing Health Disparities was the second overreaching goal of Healthy People 2010. Most policy initiatives toward eliminating health disparities have failed to close these gaps in population health policies. Preparation work for Healthy People 2020 will highlight this problem. The course will provide the students with the tools necessary to make ameliorating health disparities part of their career, whether in advocacy,program management, scientific inquiry or education. The course covers methods, reasoning, problem definition, scope descriptions, lessons learned, and pathways for implementing better disparity outcomes in PH programs.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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