critical public health

faculty: 
sociology
academic unit: 
undergraduate studies in sociology
course code: 
soci
course number: 
4010
course title: 
critical public health
description: 
examines sociological perspectives on contemporary public health issues. topics include the construction of population health, risk behaviour and social problems (e.g., addition, injury); health promotion; public health disease prevention programs; surveillance and epidemiology; environmental and occupational health; food scarcity and nutrition; public health clinical practice in ubran, rural and remote communities; public health nursing and provider-patient relations; public health research and ethics; public health policy; and the changing relationship between public health, medicine, and the law
course level: 
u
sustainability: 
is