HE 4901

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HE 4901
Practicing Health Equity: Theory and Fieldwork in Brooklyn

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

Students carry out a case study of a North Brooklyn neighborhood by exploring the social determinants of health through fieldwork, meeting with health care providers, community advocates. In carrying out fieldwork, students will enter into discussions with local community based organization leaders, explore a North Brooklyn neighborhood by walking through it, making observations, and engaging local people in informal interviews, go on line to discover disparities indicators, and writing a co-authored final report on findings. 

When Offered Winter.

Distribution Category (CA-HE, D-HE, KCM-HE, SBA-HE)
Course Attribute (CU-CEL, CU-SBY)

Outcomes
  • Identify and understand social determinants of health/disparities.
  • Acquire basic ethnographic methods.
  • Exposure to medicine and community health.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Dynamic Session.  Choose one lecture and one field studies.

  • 2 Credits Graded

  •  1077 HE 4901   LEC 001

  • Taught in NYC at the Weill Cornell Medicine campus. This Winter Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ws/courses/courses.php?v=3270

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  •  1078 HE 4901   FLD 801

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