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Mary L Walls
FAMED 525
Seattle Campus
Examines the most pressing health issues facing African Americans. Provides a forum to examine the root causes of health disparity in African descendants. Explores strategies to remedy problems in public health and healthcare delivery systems. Credit/no-credit only.
Class description
50% of receiving course credit will be determined by class participation, which consists of weekly reflections, a paragraph (1 page maximum), to be entered into a web-based (catalyst) tool and class attendance. The remaining 50% will be based on presentation of a community-based endeavor identified by the students who will work in conjunction with a stakeholder sharing an interest in the identified unmet need addressing health disparity.
Student learning goals
List the major internationally declared health standards and identify how these goals diverge from key regional and national African American health trends.
Describe the origins of health and health care disparities of African Americans and the process by which these gaps are generated and perpetuated.
Recount the historic African American experience with health authorities and the health care delivery system; and the roles these systems may play in generating health and health care disparities.
Cite resources and methods used for documenting and measuring gaps in health achievement; and apply this to critical assessment of literature dealing with race,ethnicity, and health/health care dispairity.
Demonstrate awareness of the circumstance of African descendants' displacement, confinement and social and economic exclusion as challenges to resilience against the emergence of chronic disease.
Identify the persistent social determinant of racial bias, as a causal agent of poor health outcomes.
General method of instruction
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
50% of receiving course credit will be determined by class participation, which consists of weekly reflections, a paragraph (1 page maximum), to be entered into a web-based (catalyst) tool and class attendance. The remaining 50% will be based on presentation of a community-based endeavor identified by the students who will work in conjunction with a stakeholder sharing an interest in the identified unmet need addressing health disparity.
