Graduate Catalog

CIPP 960 GLOBAL WOMEN'S HEALTH

This course is a comprehensive examination of the complex issues facing women and children?s health globally. Emphasis is on a comprehensive and multi?disciplinary perspective based on World Health Organization?s (WHO) 2007 `Framework For Action? structure for strengthening health systems, the United Nation?s (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This survey course addresses biological and medical issues, reproductive health, violence against women and children and its impact on health, infectious and chronic disease, and the environmental and social relationships to health issues. Analysis covers current national, regional, and global trends, program and policy responses to these trends, and prospects for the future.

Credits

3