Understanding Cultural and Linguistic Competence as a Central Strategy to Address Health Disparities

Understanding Cultural and Linguistic Competence as a Central Strategy to Address Health Disparities is a Natural Science course taught by Richard Aronson.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
Cultural and linguistic competence in public health doesn't mean being an authority on the values and beliefs of every culture. It does mean holding deep respect for cultural and language diversity, developing awareness of the ways in which culture and language shape our views of health and healing, and learning how every encounter in public health and health care is cross-cultural in nature. We explore how personal, organizational, and systemic bias contributes to health disparities, and how such understanding provides opportunities for humanizing health policy and creating health equity. The course examines cultural and linguistic conflicts that arise in efforts to improve the health of people and communities and assesses the extent to which specific programs and policies make a lasting impact on health equity

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Project-based
 * Presenting
 * Quantitative
 * Reading
 * Writing