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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the tri-partite relationship between Medicine, Government and Business. Topics for investigation include the privatization of health care delivery, HMOs and government regulation of health care financing and delivery, employer and employee funded health care, publicly funded health care initiatives such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Indigent care, and the political economy of nationalized health care system.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to emerging methods of holistic medicine, and combinations of health and wellness practices. This course will investigate ways in which 'alternative' treatments and natural therapies such as massage therapy, yoga, reflexology, meditation, homeopathic medicines, herbal remedies, etc., can work in conjunction with, or in place of, traditional Western medical treatments. This course also includes ways of rethinking health care professions and relationships between various treatment providers and treatment recipients.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines human growth and development through the lifecycle, from prenatal nutrition through old age. It involves the study of the interrelationship between eating habits, exercise habits, and some of the following: preventative care; cardiovascular health; flexibility and strength; physical endurance; stress; substance abuse; and eating and behavioral disorders. In addition, this course will explore current trends in processing and marketing foods and other important socioeconomic, cultural and life cycle factors that effect human growth and development.
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3.00 Credits
Gender role expectations and expectations of gendered behavior powerfully affect ways by which people produce health. Perceptions of gender affect ways in which health professionals interact with clients, thereby influencing health-related behaviors of health practitioners and clients. This course will examine ways in which gender and gender expectations affect behaviors related to health.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to ways in which health, wellness, and related concepts are constructed and shaped by culture. We will draw on concepts from ethnomedicine, medical anthropology, anthropology of religion, sociolinguistics, and the psychology of health. The course also explores various ways in which individuals, households, larger groups pf people, and various medical systems and practioners attempt to define, interpret and create health.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies important relationships between individual physical and psychological health, and family system dynamics. It involves socio-economic and cultural/anthropological investigations into inter-generational values, shared nurturing practices, infant and elder care and sibling interaction and their relation to illness and wellness.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to models of ethical reasoning and their applications to: important moral dilemmas emerging in medicine as primarily practiced in the West. It involves such topics as; patients' rights and patient privacy; end of life decisions; the push for tort and liability reform; abortion rights; uses of genetic screening; the availability and distribution of health services; the pharmaceutical industry and the profit motive; the influence of HMOs upon professional medical decision-making, research etc
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to enhance one's ability to critically appraise health information. Students will be introduced to various uses of literature reviews, hypothesis testing, statistical analysis, and source reliability assessments, in order to critically interpret the methods and results of medical research. Emphasis will be placed on designing and evaluating health studies, accessing data banks, assessing data collection techniques, analyzing and interpreting health statistics. This course also includes a pilot study.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the impact of the psychological, social, nutritional, and environmental factors that impact healthful development of children.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an overview of exercise and fitness and their relationship to health. Students will execute specific exercises and activities in order to develop strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination and power.
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