Global Health: Opportunities and Challenges
Globally, health disparities both within and across borders, have never been more significant. The world has experienced extraordinary changes in demographics, patterns of diseases, population growth, population movement, and urbanization. Such changes in the world are coupled with technology, innovation, and advances in knowledge. This seminar will focus on global burden diseases, population movement, globalization and health, health technology and innovation in the global health arena, and expanding access to global health services.
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Recommended US semester credits: 3
Opioid Epidemic
The opioid epidemic is a complex public health issue with interrelated social, political, historical, and biological elements. Class readings, activities, and assignments are designed to help students better understand the root causes of the current opioid epidemic, to explore how public policy has influenced and can influence the epidemic, to identify potential ways to improve healthcare and reduce harm for people with opioid use disorder, and to address the structural contributors to the epidemic.
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Recommended US semester credits: 3
Human Rights, Health and Migration
An estimated 71 million people worldwide have been displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or other human rights violations. In this class, we will explore the relationship between place and health, examine the factors that lead to displacement and the associated health outcomes of forcibly displaced persons. In addition, we will evaluate interventions to improve the health outcomes. Students will critically analyze the social determinants of health in the various contexts and existing policies while developing new intervention and policy proposals to improve health outcomes.
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Recommended US semester credits: 3
Experiential Course
As a public health student, you have many opportunities to complete engaging internships and community engagement. Gaining internship experience can help to reinforce and enhance your undergraduate studies, as well as cultivate valuable professional skills and areas of special interest within the field of public health and health sciences. For this program, students will engage with Croatian non-governmental organizations, community partners, hospitals, and/or clinics, to be arranged in alignment with students' interests and skills.
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Recommended US semester credits: 2
Community Inquiry
In this introductory research methods course, we will explore theoretical, technical, and practical elements of community-based inquiry. Community-based inquiry is a qualitative research method guided by a common principle, namely “the people studied make decisions about the study format and data analysis [and] create social and individual change by altering the role relations of people involved in the project”1 (Reinharz, 1992, p. 181). Over the course of the semester, we will explore mixed methods community-based research methods, including participatory action research and ethnography, GIS and mapping, and quantitative data collection, as well as various approaches to inquiry, including narrative and phenomenology.
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