SOCL 412 - Social Inequality and Health

Credits: (3)
Social conditions such as poverty, social isolation, segregation, and experiences of discrimination are associated with poorer health outcomes across a range of disease mechanisms. This course will cover health outcomes research from a variety of disciplines, with a particular focus on how social inequality-particularly along lines of class, race, gender, and sexual identity-shapes patterns of health and illness. It will draw on such research to understand how individual illnesses and deaths are caused by social factors and use health outcomes as a window for examining the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts in which health inequalities occur.