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380.667.01 WOMEN'S HEALTH POLICY

Term: 4th term
Credits: (3 credits)
Academic Year: 2012 - 2013
Course Instructor:
Description:

Provides an overview of selected, timely policy issues related to women’s health in both developed and developing countries. Covers the history of selected policy concerns, frameworks for viewing these concerns, and policy concerns related to selected women’s health issues such as family planning, welfare reform, employment and workplace conditions, and disabilities. Topics may change yearly depending on the primacy of the topic or issue.
Student Evaluation: Student evaluations based on class participation and a paper.
Learning Objective:

Students will be able to describe: 1. the history of women's health movements in the United States and definitions for women's health in current use; 2. selected frameworks and their application for viewing women's health policies in developed and developing countries; and 3. policy concerns related to work and employment and family planning and abortion for women in developing and developed countries.
Location: Baltimore
Class Times:
  • Friday 9:00 - 11:50
Enrollment Minimum: 10
Instructor Consent: No consent required
For consent, contact: pocampo@jhsph.edu
Prerequisite:

None.
Grading Restriction: Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
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