Module 1: What Is Health?
(March 4-14)
Topics:
Introductions
Defining Health
Defining Community
Researching Community Health
Materials and Assignments:
Read: WHO constitution
Read: What Is Public Health?
Read: Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants, Bircher and Kuruvilla
Read: Health, Disease, and Illness as Conceptual Tools
Watch: In Sickness and In Wealth (56 min.)
Read: Health Is Not Just the Absence of Disease
Research Assignment: Collect and submit 5 Free Lists
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Module 2: Health in the Body
(March 18-28)
Topics:
Nature vs Nurture
Social Determinants of Health:
Race, Class, Gender
Materials and Assignments:
Read: Racism and COVID 19
Read: Viruell-Fuentes, E. P. Miranda, S. Abdulrahim (2012). More than culture: structural racism, intersectionality theory, and immigrant health. Soc. Sci. Med., 75 (12): 2099-2106.
Watch: When the Bough Breaks (29 min.)
Read: Lende, D.H., 2012. Poverty poisons the brain. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 36(1), pp.183-201.
Read: Hepburn, L., Smith, A.C., Zelenski, J. and Fahrig, L., 2021. Bird diversity unconsciously increases people’s satisfaction with where they live. Land, 10(2), p.153.
Research Assignment: Fieldnotes 1
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Module 3: Health in the Community
(April 1- April 11)
Topics:
Public Health Epidemiology
Healthy Environments
Health Assessments
Health Behavior Intervention
Materials and Assignments:
Read: Textbook, Chapter 3: Epidemiology (page 59)
Read: Fear of Transit
Read: John Snow
Read: Racist Housing Policies
Watch: Place Matters (29 min.)
Watch: Bad Sugar (29 min.)
Read: A Biobehavioral Approach to Understanding Obesity and the Development of Obesogenic Illnesses Among Latino Immigrants in the United States
Participate: Ethical Dilemmas
Research Assignment: Community Mapping
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Module 4: Health in the USA
(April 15- May 9 –Spring Break April 22-April 30- no classes)
Topics:
History of US Healthcare
The US Healthcare System
Immigrant Health
Indigenous Health
Materials and Assignments:
Read: The History of the US Healthcare System
Read: Key Features of the Affordable Care Act
Read: Climate Change and Pregnancy
Watch: Becoming American (29 min.)
Read: Immigration and Stress
Read: Developing Responsive Indicators of Indigenous Community Health
Read: Nghiem, T.P.L., Wong, K.L., Jeevanandam, L., Chang, C.C., Tan, L.Y.C., Goh, Y. and Carrasco, L.R., 2021. Biodiverse urban forests, happy people: Experimental evidence linking perceived biodiversity, restoration, and emotional wellbeing. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 59, p.127030
Research Assignment: Food Mapping
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Module 5: Global Health
(May 13- 23)
Topics:
Health Environments
Health Economics & Policy
Materials and Assignments:
Watch: The value of ecological heritage for health and happiness TEDx Baines
Read: What is Global Health?
Read: Health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment: complex challenges, scientific responses, and the way forward
Watch: Collateral Damage (29 min.)
Read: Blackness, Citizenship, and the Transnational Vertigo of Violence in the Americas- Smith
Research Assignment: Fieldnotes 2
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Module 6: What is Health Now?
(May 30- June 3 — holidays May 27th and June 6th)
Topics:
Health Education
Public Health Practice
Materials and Assignments:
Read: Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality
Watch: Not Just a Paycheck (30 min.)
Research Assignment: Pile sorts
Research Assignment: Final presentation (week of June 10)
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