ANTH 4020 - Global Health Studies II: Comparative Health Systems

Institution:

University of Colorado Denver

Subject:

Anthropology

Description:

The course has three parts: (1) examines the social and cultural construction of sickness, systems of etiology cross culturally, the therapeutic encounter, varying roles of healer and patient, and the cultural basis of all healing systems; (2) considers health systems in the context of global health reform and the history, organization and roles of institutions of global health governance; and (3) considers the inter-relationship of health, foreign policy and global security. Prereq: Upper division and/or graduate standing. Cross-listed with ANTH 5024, HBSC 4020 and 5020.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ucdenver.edu/

Phone Number:

(303) 556-5600

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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