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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - PHC6031
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2006-12-14
- Department: Community & Family Health
- College: PH
- Budget Account Number: 640500 PUB001
- Contact Person: Dr. Jeannine Coreil
- Phone: 46698
- Email: jcoreil@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: PHC
- Number: 6031
- Full Title: Health Disparities, Diversity and Cultural Compete
- Credit Hours: 4
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Health Disparities
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: none
- Corequisites: none
- Course Description: This course is designed to explore health disparities in the U.S. and multi-level strategies to reduce those disparities. Discussions will focus on a critique of the literature from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and an analysis of case studies.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: It is desirable to add this course given the current national focus on addressing health disparities. The disproportionate burden of poor health and premature mortality has been well documented for over 2 centuries. The twentieth century brought signifi
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course is required for the public health students in the Socio-Health Sciences concentration of the Department of Community and Family Health, and the MCH Epidemiology Training Program. It is also a highly relevant and desired course among students in medicine, nursing, applied anthropology and related disciplines.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 2 times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in Public Health or related field
- Objectives: 1) To describe and analyze patterns of health disparity affecting various racial/ethnic, gender, income and sexual orientation groups, including health indicators, rates of disease, and health-related behaviors;
2) To review the determinants of health disparities for particular groups, including social, political, and economic factors;
3) To evaluate the status of the literature and existing programs with respect to evidenced based prevention/intervention, culturally appropriate modifications, and service delivery strategies.
- Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Identify and describe the distribution of health disparities and their contributing factors across population groups and disease outcomes.
2) Describe key factors contributing to health disparities.
3) Describe and critique current and proposed medical care, social, environmental, and public health strategies to address health disparities.
4) Identify innovative strategies (including cultural competency training, increased diversity in the workforce, and development of culturally appropriate interventions) that may contribute substantively toward the elimination of health disparities.
- Major Topics: Key definitions, terminology, why this is a national issue
Overview of the epidemiology of health disparities: across diseases, vulnerable populations, and time
Health Disparities by Race/Ethnicity
Health Disparities by Gender
Health Disparities by Socioeconomic Status
Contributing Factors: Social and psychosocial context
Contributing Factors: Culture, “acculturation” and behavior
Contributing Factors: Stigma, Racism
Contributing Factors: Health Care inequalities
What is Being Done to Eliminate Disparities?
Survey of existing national strategies, theories and recommendations.
Addressing Disparities: Clinical and Practice Guidelines
Changing the face of Public Health: Minority Representation in Public Health and Medicine
What is cultural competence?
Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Culturally Competent Interventions
Community-Based Participatory Research
- Textbooks: A packet of required reading material is available for purchase at the COPH Copy Center.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.