SOCWK 682 - Global Health & Preventive Practice

3 credit(s)
Global health and preventive practice course will focus on understanding critical theories, social determinants of health, the burden of disease, preventive healthcare practice, and other related topics in social medicine and epidemiology. Learning advancement in addressing these issues will be facilitated through evidence based preventive and intervention models. This course looks at global health and development from the paradigms of equity, social justice, bio-social perspective, ethical values, good governance, and interdisciplinary approach. Students will have an opportunity to work on their assignment on public health in the context of local to global health; it will include critical understanding the issues and incorporating the innovative prevention or intervention approaches to address specific health issues.