CLUSTER 26B

Poverty and Health in Latin America

• Life Sciences
• Historical Analysis
• Social Analysis

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 26A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Responses to health inequities and possible solutions to promote improved health outcomes and to social determinants of health illustrated through examples of current programs and policies. Major areas for addressing health inequity include governance, community action, social justice and human rights movements, health sector and public health programs, and global priorities. Introduction to tools to promote health, such as service delivery, health workforce, information systems, access to medicines, health systems financing, and health systems governance. Letter grading.