Education · Boston College
This course provides an overview of disparities in health status and the delivery of healthcare in the US. Students will explore relationships among individual characteristics such as gender identification, education, income, literacy, race, ethnicity, culture, acculturation, disability, age, and sexual orientation; interpersonal factors such as communication with healthcare providers, family and social ties, and discrimination; and societal-level factors such as neighborhood and community context, healthcare organizations, economics, politics and policies and seek to understand how those fact
