Culture

Culture

The study of culture in public health examines how cultural beliefs, practices, and social norms influence health behaviors and outcomes. Career paths related to this topic include cultural competency training, global health, community health program development, public health education, and health communication.


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AFAS 2160 - Free the Land: Black Lives and Environmental (In)justice

AFAS 3304 - Race and Global Health Inequities: Social determinants and Intersectionality

ANTHRO 3105 - Topics in Anthropology: Anthropology of Drugs

ANTHRO 3201 - Gender, Culture and Madness

ANTHRO 3320 - Disability Anthropology

ANTHRO 3361 - The American Melting Pot: Migration in the United States

ANTHRO 3610 - Culture and Environment

ANTHRO 3612 - Population and Society

ANTHRO 3885 - Global Mental Health: Medical Pluralism Cross-Cultural Care

ANTHRO 4100 - Humanitarian Interventions

ANTHRO 4110 - Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying

ANTHRO 4215 - Anthropology of Food

ANTHRO 4481 - Writing Culture

BEYOND 1003 - Beyond Boundaries: When I'm 64: Preparing Ourselves and Society for a Good Long Life

ENST 3060 - Community Based Conservation: Madagascar Sustainability Initiative

FRENCH 3760 - Cinema and Society: (Screening Health)

GENST 2750 - Images of Disability in Film and Literature

GENST 3750 - Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility

GLOBAL 3006 - Global Health and Language

ITAL 4100 - Mamma Mia! Motherhood, Maternity, & the Female Reproductive Body in the Italian Cultural Context

LATAM 3160 - Cultures of Health in Latin America

PHEL 6014 - Bullet Related Injury and Policy in St. Louis and the United States

POLSCI 4271 - Topics in Politics: Trust and Public Health

PSYCH 3050 - Health Psychology

PUBHLTHSOC 1000 - Foundations in Public Health

PUBHLTHSOC 3010 - Topics in Public Health & Society: Health Communication and the Misinformation Crisis

PUBHLTHSOC 3280 - Infectious Disease and Society

PUBHLTHSOC 4010 - Topics in PH&S: Animals, Insects, and the Making of Modern Public Health

PUBHLTHSOC 4011 - Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World

PUBHLTHSOC 4012 - Global Hunger, Malnutrition and Obesity

PUBHLTHSOC 4020 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Race: Science, Power, and Health)

SOC 4111 - Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States

WGSS 3055 - Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body

WGSS 3155 - Gender, Health, and Society

WGSS 3622 - Women, Health, and Media

WGSS 4115 - Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science