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
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
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 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