Social Determinants of Health
These electives are important for students interested in addressing health inequities and pursuing careers in public health policy, community health, social work, and health education. Understanding the social determinants of health is essential for developing effective interventions and creating equitable health policies. Topics include socioeconomic status, education, neighborhood and physical environment, employment, social support networks, and access to healthcare.
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AFAS 1175 - Confronting the Past: Transformative Justice in STL and Beyond
AFAS 2160 - Free the Land: Black Lives and Environmental (In)justice
AFAS 3304 - Race and Global Health Inequities: Social determinants and Intersectionality
ANTHRO 3201 - Gender, Culture and Madness
ANTHRO 3310 - Health, Healing and Ethics: Intro to Medical Anthropology
ANTHRO 3320 - Disability Anthropology
ANTHRO 3361 - The American Melting Pot: Migration in the United States
ANTHRO 3602 - Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health, and Justice
ANTHRO 3610 - Culture and Environment
ANTHRO 3612 - Population and Society
ANTHRO 4250 - Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTHRO 4312 - Environmental Interactions and Human Health
ANTHRO 4610 - Queer Medicine: Theories, Methods, Provocations
BEYOND 1003 - Beyond Boundaries: When I'm 64: Preparing Ourselves and Society for a Good Long Life
ENGR 4506 - Engineers in the Community (Engineering Ethics, Leadership and Conflict Management)
ENST 1540 - Beyond Boundaries: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone
ENST 3540 - Environmental Justice
GENST 2750 - Images of Disability in Film and Literature
GENST 3750 - Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility
GLOBAL 3006 - Global Health and Language
LATAM 3160 - Cultures of Health in Latin America
PHEL 6014 - Bullet Related Injury and Policy in St. Louis and the United States
PHTPS 6005 - Eliminating Health Disparities
PHTPS 6011 - TPS: Gender, Poverty & Global Health
PUBHLTHSOC 1000 - Foundations in Public Health
PUBHLTHSOC 1011 - Environmental Justice as Public Health
PUBHLTHSOC 3210 - History of Public Health
PUBHLTHSOC 4010 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Epidemics, Pandemics, and Society)
PUBHLTHSOC 4012 - Global Hunger, Malnutrition and Obesity
PUBHLTHSOC 4020 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Race: Science, Power, and Health)
SOC 2050 - Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
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 3081 - From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America
WGSS 3135 - The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health
WGSS 3155 - Gender, Health, and Society
WGSS 3215 - Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies
