Curricular Themes
Key themes photo slideshow
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Health as a moral endeavor: exploring the moral importance of health and healthcare considering individual and societal commitments and obligations including the fair use of limited resources.
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Health equity: having equitable access and the means and resources to attain one’s full life potential. Here, MPH students Kimberly Silva and Gabrielle Lodge pose for a picture standing in front of supplies they transported to Mississippi to support families of those arrested in ICE raids.
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Life course perspective: the cumulative evolutionary, pre-generational, pre-natal, and life events and circumstances that influence health at any one point in time.
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One health among humans, animals and environment: the inextricable relationship among animal, human, and environmental health as determined by evolutionary biology, human behavior and environmental phenomena.
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5chw4r7z - Wikimedia CommonsCultural relevance: the lens through which life events are experienced and interpreted and through which meaning is ascribed.
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Sam ReindersLocal and global impact: appreciation for the global systems that influence the processes, dynamics, and activities of the world’s populations; health as a multi-faceted state shaped within, such as biological, socio-cultural, geographic, economic, and political contexts.