Introduction to Urban Community Health

This course provides an overview of urban public and community health, and the fields of work in engaging, understanding, preventing and intervening in illness and disability in our City. Students learn the social and policy factors that influence the health of a community and its members; the emerging roles in community health work; and the role of the health care system in community health. Activities will promote development of critical thinking, technical and analytical skills. Examples of individual, community and social change and service are used throughout the course and discussed in line with social justice and human rights goals.