Public Health · Columbia University
This class was very informative as an introductory class into environmental justice, public health, and epidemiology.
An introduction to and overview of public health. Through a series of sessions with leading public health experts, this course views the multifaceted nature of public health through a prismic lens addressing key concepts, approaches, and issues of historical and contemporary import: What is public health and how has public health evolved over time? What are the core methods of public health? What are the approaches to understanding and addressing both infectious and chronic, non- communicable diseases? What role do micro- and macro-level determinants (i.e., biology and social context) play in public health? What are the global trends in population health? How does the individual life course bear on population health? How do systems, policy, and population health mutually shape each other? How are public health programs designed and evaluated? What are the limits of public health?
I have learned a lot about environmental issues, risk management, and injustice in our environment.
I learned about a way to assess the world through the lens of health.
how health outcomes reflect and perpetuate socioeconomic inequalities, how health frameworks are essential for resolving broader inequalities
I learned many statistics about public health issues that plague this country and the world at large.
I learned a lot of practical skills in the field of public health, and I felt that this was a very good introduction to environmental justice in public health, yet still at a high-level where we could engage with the content on a professional level in the future.
fundamentals of public health at the neighborhood, city, and national levels, social determinants of health
This course highlights the intersections between public health and environmental justice. It helps us understand how social vulnerabilities can be translated into health problems and the systematic structures that lead to them.
Learned about interdisciplinary connectiojs