Course # 37910 Section Number 1 Day(s) Tu- Th Time(s) 11:00am-12:20pm Term Spring 2025 Specialization Health Policy Social & Economic Inequality Course Instructor Robert Kaestner Syllabus Syllabus 11/29/2023 The course highlights the nature and extent of racial/ethnic disparities in health, how to place these disparities in a conceptual context, and it reviews representative descriptive and causal studies of possible explanations of disparities.The course will focus on health disparities between three racial/ethnic groups in the USA: non-Hispanic Black people, non-Hispanic white people and Hispanic people. These categories are imperfect and imprecise, and obscure important variation within each group, but are widely used by government statisticians, academic researchers and policymakers. The course will begin with a review of the human capital model of demand for health and healthcare over the life course. Conceptual models used by sociologists will also be reviewed and integrated into the human capital model. The course will review the extent and magnitude of health disparities by race and ethnicity, and how those disparities evolve over the life course from birth to old-age. The course will review and assess research intended to explain (identify causes of) racial and ethnic disparities at each age. Some major government interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health at each age will be reviewed and assessed in terms of efficacy. It is recommended that students have taken PPHA 38300 Health Economics and Public Policy prior to enrolling. Recent News More news Free medical school tuition unlikely to have a major impact on the U.S. health care system Thu., July 25, 2024 After a shooting, community and health leaders step up to help survivors heal Tue., July 23, 2024 Student Profile: Vladimir Bejdo, DPSS’23 Thu., July 18, 2024 Upcoming Events More events Get to Know Harris! MACRM and PhD Information Session Thu., August 01, 2024 | 8:30 AM Get to Know Harris! A Virtual Information Session Wed., August 07, 2024 | 12:00 PM Harris Evening Master's Program Information Session Wed., August 21, 2024 | 12:00 PM
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