HSCI 201 Community Healthcare
A study of key issues concerning community health are aimed at developing practical approaches to supporting patients. Students consider obstacles to effective health care as well as strategies for enabling at-risk patients to play a more active role in promoting their health and well-being. Topics include challenges of delivering adequate healthcare in communities, population medicine; specific problems posed by diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease; ethical dimensions of the concept of "underinsurance"; community medicine and the law; and methods of improving compliance and measuring outcomes. This seminar course provides the academic foundation for a subsequent Health Coach Internship with the Memorial Health System.
Prerequisite
Requires application and acceptance to the Community Healthcare program.
Offered
All semesters