Global Public Health

Instructions

Choose a cultural group from outside the United States and research their health disparities, behaviors, and beliefs:

Focusing on your chosen group, explain the structural bias, social inequities, and racism as social determinants of their health.

Discuss your chosen groups’ challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels.

Utilize health indicators and/or descriptive epidemiology, as applicable in this context.

The following are expected:

Identify and describe cultural group from outside the United States in terms of history, geography, and characteristics.

Identify disparities by comparing descriptive epidemiology of identified cultural group to majority cultural group within that country or region.

Describe common preventive and protective health behaviors, sick-role behaviors, illness behaviors and societal health behaviors.

Describe commonly held attitudes, beliefs, and values.

Discuss socio-economic, language, political, religious, social inequities, and racism as social determinants of their health disparity by highlighting challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.

Two-three pages double space with section titles.

Cite your work with at least 4-6 scholarly references (2010-present) including at least two references published in peer-reviewed journals.