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GLPH 171 Social and Physical Determinants of Health and Disease Units: 3.00
Social and Physical Determinants of Health and Disease will use evidence-based practices to address the impact of social and environmental sources on health at both an individual and population level. Students will focus how the contexts of peoples' lives affect their health, methods for measuring contextual effects, and the role of medical systems in creating health. Students will gain skills to understand and evaluate scientific literature and become community advocates for health by researching and preparing a PSA as a cumulative assessment.
NOTE: Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office.
Note:
NOTE: Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office.
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Learning Hours: 120 (48 Online Activity, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Exclusion HLTH 101/3.0; GPHY 339/3.0
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply methodological approaches to understand social and physical determinants of health.
- Discuss health, wellness, and physical and social determinants of health.
- Explain how intersectionality is linked to social and physical determinants of health, and describe the impact on health outcomes.
- Explain the role of health initiatives in reducing health inequities.