HE 225 Social Determinants of Health

This course explores how social conditions, factors, institutions, and systems where we are born, grow, work, live, and age influence health. Students will explore historical and contemporary examples of health determinants to examine why differential risks of poor health and premature mortality persist. Application of selected health behavior models and theories will be utilized to demonstrate the complex interplay between individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and societal factors.

Credits

Notes

Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course

General Education Requirements

AAOT Heatlh & PE, AGS PE/Health, AGS Social Science, AS Diff, Power & Oppress Found, AS Social Process/Institution

Outcomes

Identify the determinants of health domains that shape health and influence public health responses. Explore contextual factors that influence health disparities. Apply social determinants of health to specific health issues. Critically evaluate health research, information sources, services, and policies to promote health and prevent disease. Apply selected health models to understand health problems, the effects of potential prevention strategies, and possible solutions. Explain how ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate– using historical and contemporary examples – how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.