HEA 3305 - Health and Culture

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): Completion of HEA 2301, Introduction to Health Systems, is required.
This course introduces the concept of culture as one framework for understanding the relation between culture and health. More specifically, the course examines culturally-shaped definitions, of health/wellbeing; illness causation and treatment theories, understandings of health risk; connections between culture, health and stigma, healing/curing traditions; the relation between health risk (vulnerability) and socio-cultural structures; gender and health; and the meaning of cultural competency.