Courses Details

EPID761: Social Determinants Of Population Health

• Graduate level
• Residential
• Summer term(s) for residential students;
• 1 credit hour(s) for residential students;
• Instructor(s): Staff (Residential);
• Prerequisites: None
• Advisory Prerequisites: Intro Epidemiology and Biostatistics courses
• Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
• Description: Introduce how social factors affect health. Survey social determinants of health literature to provide basic substantive knowledge on differential patterns of health across individual and contextual levels. Discuss methodological approaches to systematic assessment of health disparities, conceptualizing and measuring social exposures, examining contextual factors, and estimating policy impacts.