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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

IS 336 - Health & Healthcare Issue (3)

This course identifies and examines current issues involving the health behaviors, health status, and healthcare of people in the United States. Among the specific issues included in this course are (1) the impact of health behaviors on health status and the healthcare system; (2) the ethics of healthcare treatment and decision-making; (3) the patterns of health status based on gender, age, race, and income; (4) the cost of healthcare; (5) inequalities in access to healthcare; and (6) alternative models of healthcare reform. Prerequisite: One natural and one behavioral/social science course. 2015 CORE: Social Justice & Civic Life, Transform, Interdisciplinary Studies.