Description
Prerequisite: ENG 102; PUH 345
This course introduces students to the principles and practices of public health in the areas of maternal and child health and sexual health. Using the life course perspective, the course examines how infants, children, women and families develop in the context of biologic and social determinants of health, as they play out over a lifetime and across generations. The focus of this course will be American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women and their families including traditional notiions of women, the body, pregnancy, childbirth, family, and children's health. Selected current topies--such as asthma, adolescent pregancy, infant mortality, and childhood obesity among AI/AN propulations--are studied in depth and used to illustrate how problems are understood, their distribution in diverse populations, and the content and quality of programs required to address them. Throughout the course, special attention is given to the impact of poverty, poor acc