UM SPH Academic Courses

EPID617 Social epidemiology II: Social and economic determinants of population health

Winter term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Galea, Sandro

Offered every year

Last offered Winter 2008

Prerequisites: EPID 514 or permission of instructor

Description: This course rests on the premise that the study of the determinants of health at multiple levels, and their interrelationships, is essential in order to better explain, and potentially predict, the health of populations. Although this course is grounded in an appreciation for the contribution of different disciplines to the study of population health, it focuses on the particular role that epidemiologic perspectives and methods can offer to improve our understanding of population health. As such, this course will be divided into three primary sections. The first section will consider the notion of population health, what we mean by this, and how thinking about population health challenges some of the core methods, and assumptions, of epidemiology. The second section will consider some of the key potential macro-level determinants of population health, and consider the potential role of epidemiologic methods in studying these determinants. The third section will consider epidemiologic methods, their potential, and their limitations in defining population health, understanding its determinants, and assessing the mechanisms through which these determinants influence population health. This course is a combination of didactic lectures and student discussion.

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