Social Work · Boston College
This course will build clinical and macro social work students understanding of how social factors like racism, the built environment, and access to care shape the health of populations and produce disparities in health and well-being. We begin by introducing the public health approach and encouraging students to expand their thinking about what contributes to disease or disorder in an individual client (a social work approach), to incorporate an understanding of why certain populations have worse health than others (the public health approach). With that foundation, each week we first build k
