UM SPH Academic Courses

HBEHED623 Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Neighbors, Harold

Last offered Fall, 2008

Description: This course focuses on how public health has responded to the unique health and mental health problems of ethnic "minority" groups with emphasis on African Americans. The course focuses on various models of mental disorder and how those models are operationally defined in community and clinical studies, with particular attention paid to group differences in diagnosis and epidemiologic case-finding. Emphasis is also be placed on risk and protective factors such as stress, social support, identity, discrimination, acculturation, and coping capacity.

This course is cross-listed with 602 in the Social Work department.

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