AP/HREQ 3562 6.00
The Impact of Culture on Health and Equity
This course examines health from a cross-cultural and critical human rights perspective. Racial and cultural stratification in health policies and practices are explored, as well as how western biomedicine has influenced health care delivery systems in the world, usually at the expense of Indigenous health traditions. Identity depends on our class, age, gender/sexuality, race and ethnicity, culture and dis\ability. This course will look at different cultural understandings of health, illness, and everyday health care practices from cultural group to cultural group. Our discussions will emphasize the connections between illness and the health care structures as well as the political and economic circumstances in Canada as a multicultural society. This course will deal with current issues in discriminatory practices and mechanism that enable racism, prejudice to occur in everyday health interactions and the cultural understanding of health, health care and health professionals in an increasingly unequal world that allows for inequality of health status around the world.
Course credit exclusion: AP/MIST 3562 6.00 (prior to Winter 2019)
Prerequisite: 24 credits