Critical Public Health

Faculty: 
Sociology
Academic Unit: 
Undergraduate Studies in Sociology
Course Code: 
SOCI
Course Number: 
4010
Course Title: 
Critical Public Health
Description: 
Examines sociological perspectives on contemporary public health issues. Topics include the construction of population health, risk behaviour and social problems (e.g., addition, injury); health promotion; public health disease prevention programs; surveillance and epidemiology; environmental and occupational health; food scarcity and nutrition; public health clinical practice in ubran, rural and remote communities; public health nursing and provider-patient relations; public health research and ethics; public health policy; and the changing relationship between public health, medicine, and the law
Course Level: 
U
Sustainability: 
IS