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Issues in Contemporary Global Health

The UCLA Program in Global Health offers an introductory survey course in global health each summer session at the UCLA campus: Issues in Contemporary Global Health Including HIV/AIDS (MED 180). The course provides the student with an understanding of the epidemiology of infectious and chronic disabling conditions and their prevalence and incidence in the developed and developing world. Attention will be placed on a multidisciplinary perspective, such that economic, political, cultural, and behavioral factors related to disease spread and management are elucidated and integrated. Disasters and conflict and their health implications will be covered, along with issues of social justice and human rights and attempts to bring human rights perspectives to bear on global health issues.

Other topics covered will include how health is redefined in the era of globalization, and how health issues in one part of the world affects health in other parts of the world. The course will also cover the diversity of health care systems, lessons learned from those systems, as well as health systems needs in various parts of the world. Health care person-power issues will also be addressed, and especially the economic and political issues causing brain-drain from areas of greatest need for health care.

For more information or to sign up for the course, please visit the UCLA Summer Sessions Web site.