Fall 2022 - GEOG 486 D100
Health Care Geographies (4)
Class Number: 2905
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 7 – Dec 6, 2022: Tue, 8:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Valorie Crooks
crooks@sfu.ca
1 778 782-2004
Office: RCB 7227
Office Hours: TBA
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Prerequisites:
GEOG 386 or HSCI 305.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An in-depth examination of health care and health services from a health geography perspective, including place-based considerations of care spaces, health human resources, and new forms of health care.
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Overview:
This course involves an in-depth examination of health care and health services from a health geography perspective, including place-based considerations of care spaces, health human resources, and new forms of care. We will focus on examining ‘global health care mobilities.’ Such mobilities include: medical tourism; formal cross-border care; health worker migration; physician voluntourism; medical outsourcing; off-shore medical schooling; and international retirement migration. Each of these mobilities involves the movement of patients, trainees, workers, and/or technologies across borders to facilitate care delivery/receipt. In this course we will take a critical look at these types of global health care mobilities, highlighting the ethical and equity impacts of such practices both here in Canada and internationally using a geographic lens. This fully discussion-based senior seminar course will be run in person.
Grading
- Class Participation 20%
- Newspaper Assignment 10%
- Class Facilitation Assignment 10%
- Article Talking Points Assignment 10%
- Research Paper Assignment 50%
NOTES:
Grading Scale:
Percentage Letter Grade
90–100 A+
85–89.9 A
80–84.9 A-
76–79.9 B+
73–75.9 B
70–72.9 B-
66–69.9 C+
63–65.9 C
60–62.9 C-
50–59.9 D
0–49.9 F
Materials
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
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