380.666.41
Women's Health
- Location:
- Internet
- Term:
- 3rd term
- Department:
- Population, Family and Reproductive Health
- Credits:
- 3 credits
- Academic Year:
- 2022 - 2023
- Instruction Method:
- Synchronous Online
- Class Times:
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- M W, 1:30 - 2:50pm
- Auditors Allowed:
- Yes, with instructor consent
- Undergrads Allowed:
- Yes
- Grading Restriction:
- Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
- Course Instructors:
- Contact:
- Shannon Wood
- Resources:
- Description:
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Provides an overview of leading topics in women’s health with an emphasis on the US and other developed settings. Examines leading sources of morbidity and mortality through age-gender-race/ethnicity-disaggregated data. For each topic, we examine historical context, risk factors, prevention, and treatment. Considers health from biological, lifecourse, and social determinants perspectives, including via frameworks of women’s health disparities and intersectionality that address inequities in interpersonal, social, political and economic power. Major topics include: non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer), immunology, infectious disease, preventive health, aging, mental health, and violence.
- Learning Objectives:
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Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the health status of women in the United States and other developed countries, including epidemiology of leading health issues
- Describe and apply frameworks of lifecourse, women’s health disparities and intersectionality to women’s health and leading sources of morbidity and mortality
- Evaluate and synthesize the literature related to controversial topics in women's health
- Methods of Assessment:
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 30% Written Assignment(s)
- 35% Position paper outline and write-up
- 20% Group debate
- 15% Participation
- Instructor Consent:
No consent required
- Special Comments:
This is the virtual/online section of a course also held onsite. You are responsible for the modality in which you register.