PHCG3600 · Schiller Institute
Health Inequities: Origins andRemedieswill explore the social, economic, historical and political factors that are responsible fordifferences in health between different groups of people. These include differences in disease prevalence, adult and infant mortality, and life expectancy. They are the result of unfair systems such as structural racism, economic discrimination and red-lining that negatively affect peoples living conditions, access to healthcare, and overall health status.These factors are known collectively as the socialdeterminants of health. They are manifestationsof injustice. Students in this course must have taken PHCG1210 Public Health in a Global Society and PHCG2120 Introduction to Epidemiology.
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