CIPP 971 POPULATION HEALTH IN BALTIMORE
This one credit, inter-professional course provides students with an inside perspective on addressing health disparities and inequities in Baltimore from both academic and community perspectives. Faculty Fellows of the UMB Center for Community Based Engagement and Learning (CBEL) and their affiliated community partners present course content. Through the lens of case studies and personal narratives or stories, faculty from UMB professional schools (medicine, social work, nursing, law, physical therapy, pharmacy, and dentistry) describe their community-based work and their collaboration with community partners, emphasizing barriers on, and solutions towards, achieving health equity and population health in Baltimore. Learning about Baltimore history, local contextual factors, and neighborhood resources highlight opportunities where the realities of health disparities can be seen. Using the WHO Social Determinants of Health framework, social concepts such as place and race are explored. Foundational principles of social justice are also emphasized. ?Population health? and ?culture of health? and its relevance to Baltimore-based solutions are described in order for students to identify opportunities to address Interprofessional health disparities in their own careers.
Offered
201609