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This course examines the broad range of health issues confronting women. Using basic information on the health status of women in the US, the focus is on how this health status is influenced by gender, race, and class. Careful attention is paid to political and economic factors influencing the health of women in our society and to the impact of health policy and social policy on health status. Models of care including the Western medical model as well as some of the new and emerging models are explored. Finally, we examine the latest thinking on specific health issues women face including reproductive health, mental health, peri- to post-menopause, sexually transmitted diseases, and aging.
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This course examines the ways in which New York City has historically exercised its zoning authority and has created a variety of institutions to intervene in the zoning process. It examines the role of real estate interests, the general public, and the city government agencies specifically charged with planning functions.
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The course will deal with infectious diseases in American cities over time. Severe epidemics of contagious disease are a creation of civilization, requiring as they do the large population that crowded cities provide. A number of devastating diseases will be considered, among them tuberculosis, cholera, syphilis, hepatitis, polio, and AIDS, along with their effect on city life. The social construction of disease and the changing cultural meanings of different diseases will be dealt with. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of stigma and discrimination in how society reacts to those who have a disease.
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This course describes and analyzes health care delivery and financing in the US using concepts and data from sociology, economics, history, philosophy and political science. It begins with the history of American medical practice and education, tracing the ways in which scientific ideas, technological innovation and the politics of professional competition shaped the current U.S. health care system. Next, the patterns of illness in the U.S. population are described in relation to the distribution of health care resources and other social and economic resources. Issues of health services access, quality, financing and cost are discussed, including the ethics of resource distribution. The U.S. health care system is then compared to the systems in Canada, Japan and several European countries. The recent history of health care reform in the U.S. is analyzed and students engage in a debate over current and future policy options.
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This course deals with the problem of "Emerging Diseases" and the policy implications that they entail. Emerging diseases are broadly defined to include (1) new diseases that have not been seen before (e.g., HIV, SARS, Lyme); (2) diseases that are spreading into geographic areas from which they have been absent (e.g., Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever), and (3) older diseases that were in significant decline but have now reversed direction (e.g. tuberculosis itself, and also in its antibiotic resistant form) and pose a major threat to the public¿s health. The course emphasizes the social causation of infectious disease (i.e., the political, economic, social and cultural practices that inadvertently favor the emergence of disease) and the social construction of disease (i.e., how diseases and their victims are perceived, and how that helps or hinders measured aimed at controlling them). The course entails reading both theoretical and descriptive material and emphasizes learning a body of factual material.
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This course examines the process of health policymaking at the city, state, and federal levels of government, from agenda-building through policy formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation of health policies. The relationships among government executives, legislators, bureaucrats, advocates, and other participants will be analyzed.
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