Consider:\u00a0 Who has a better chance of surviving to age 60, a 15-year old girl in the United States or a 15-year old girl in Sri Lanka?<\/p>\n
If you chose the girl in the US, you need to take Hserv 482 \/ Global Health 482, this Winter Quarter, to find out why Americans are not living longer despite our advanced medical resources.<\/p>\n
There are no prerequisites except an open mind.\u00a0 There is a take-home exam.
\nClass meets Tu\/Th 4:30 to 5:50 plus an hour\u2019s section meeting on Friday.
\n4 credits, qualifies for I&S as well as well as GH minor or PH major.
\nSLN\u00a0 15401 (HSERV 482) or 15022 (G H 482)<\/p>\n
For questions contact instructors:\u00a0 Stephen Bezruchka\u00a0sabez@uw.edu<\/a>\u00a0 or Sara Mackenzie\u00a0saramack@uw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Population Health Hs 482\/GH 482 explores what makes a country more or less healthy in comparison to others. Hserv 482\/G H 482, The Health of Populations, looks at countries to understand how people there achieve their health status.\u00a0 Students in the past have enjoyed the course and have found the material to be invigorating.<\/p>\n One student claims, \u201cThis class demolished everything i thought about health, healthcare and human behavior!,\u201d another said \u201cThis course ruined my life \u2013 in the best way possible\u201d and another student said that, \u201cThis class was the most thought-provoking course that I\u2019ve taken at the UW.\u00a0 \u201cThis class was super intellectually stimulating!!\u201d<\/p>\n Learning occurs in the active learning classroom at the South Campus Center with section meetings facilitated by outstanding TAs complemented by readings and explorations of health outcomes.\u00a0Students seed the concepts learned into community meetings they create and otherwise use their creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Consider:\u00a0 Who has a better chance of surviving to age 60, a 15-year old girl in the United States or a 15-year old girl in Sri Lanka? If you chose the girl in the US, you need to take Hserv 482 \/ Global Health 482, this Winter Quarter, to find out why Americans are not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses-and-registration","category-global-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhy do Japanese women enjoy increasingly better health status in comparison to all other nations?Why is our health getting worse?\u00a0 Why is mortality for US women increasing in almost half of our counties?
\nWhy are we one of 8 nations globally seeing an increase in deaths of women in childbirth?
\nWhy, why, why?\u00a0 We spend over half of all the world\u2019s health care dollars, 3.5\u00a0trillion in 2017\u00a0\u2013 a sixth of our total economy.\u00a0 What is going on?<\/p>\n