Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2019 - HSCI 130 D100

Foundations of Health Science (4)

Class Number: 2971

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 3 – Apr 8, 2019: Wed, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

How health, illness and disease are defined and measured for individuals and populations. Research strategies used to identify how health, illness and disease are distributed across human populations and how environmental, socio-economic, demographic, biological, behavioural and political factors influence individual and population health. Breadth-Social Sci/Science.

COURSE DETAILS:

There will be three hours of lecture time each week that will include a lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises.  There will also be a one-hour tutorial each week.  There will be no final exam.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

By the end of the course, students will be able to understand: (1) the concepts of health, illness and disease and how these constructs have varied across cultures and historical periods; (2) the terminology used to describe and measure patterns of health illness and disease in public health; (3) the social determinants of health and imagine how we might build health public policy and promote the health of the population; (4) specific health issues (e.g. sanitation, infectious diseases and rise of public health, the origin of HIV/AIDS, and climate change); and (5) health literacy and how to convey your health message using art.

Grading

  • Tutorial participation/ presentation 15%
  • In class exercises 20%
  • Quizzes one and two 50%
  • Art Project/Book Review 15%

REQUIREMENTS:

REQUIRED READINGS:

Greenwood M, Leeuw S, Lindsay NM, Reading C (eds.) Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada. Beyond the Social. Toronto, Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2015.

Students must also read and review of one of three books: (1) George, R. The big necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008; (2) Shilts, R. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition. St Martin’s Press, 2007; or (3) Johnson, S. The ghost map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World. New York: Riverhead books, 2006.

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

George, R. The big necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008
ISBN: 9781250058300

Johnson, S. The ghost map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World. New York: Riverhead books
ISBN: 1594482691

Shilts, R. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition. St Martin’s Press, 2007
ISBN: 9780312374631

Greenwood M, Leeuw S, Lindsay NM, Reading C (eds.) Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada. Beyond the Social. Toronto, Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2015
ISBN: 9781551307329

Registrar Notes:

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