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INTDS 230 - Community Health Care: From Theory to Practice


Credits: 2
A study of key issues concerning community health care aimed at developing practical approaches to supporting patients. Students consider obstacles to effective health care as well as strategies for enabling at-risk patients to play more active roles in promoting their health and well-being. Topics include: challenges of delivering adequate health care in communities; population medicine; specific problems posed by diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease; ethical dimensions of the concept of “underinsurance;” community medicine and the law; and methods of improving compliance and measuring outcomes. This seminar provides students with the academic foundation for a subsequent Health Coach Internship (INTDS 530 ) with the Meadville Medical Center.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Distribution Requirements: CL, SB.

Not open to first-year students.
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