Course Description
Global Burden of Disease, GLBH 170R
This online course provides a foundational interdisciplinary understanding of global health issues and their importance to societal goals, including poverty reduction, sustainable development, and international contexts of wellness and disease prevention. Covers major communicable and non-communicable diseases and demographic patterns of disease burden.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC San Diego, GLBH
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
Unit Credit
UC San Diego:
General Education: Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Social Science
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Course Creators
Thomas Csordas
Professor Thomas Csordas is a member of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield. Professor Csordas is an anthropologist whose principal interests are in medical and psychological anthropology, comparative religion, anthropological theory, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, language and culture. He has conducted ethnographic research with Charismatic Catholics, Navajo Indians, and adolescents in the American Southwest on topics including therapeutic process in religious healing, ritual language and creativity, sensory imagery, self transformation, techniques of the body, causal reasoning about illness, and the experience of psychiatric inpatients
Professor Thomas Csordas is a member of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield. Professor Csordas is an anthropologist whose principal interests are in medical and psychological anthropology, comparative religion, anthropological theory, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, language and culture. He has conducted ethnographic research with ...
Professor Thomas Csordas is a member of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield. Professor Csordas is an anthropologist whose principal interests are in medical and psychological anthropology, comparative religion, anthropological theory, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, language and culture. He has conducted ethnographic research with Charismatic Catholics, Navajo Indians, and adolescents in the American Southwest on topics including therapeutic process in religious healing, ritual language and creativity, sensory imagery, self transformation, techniques of the body, causal reasoning about illness, and the experience of psychiatric inpatients
Janis Jenkins
http://anthro.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/janis-jenkins.html
http://anthro.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/janis-jenkins.html
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