D/HP 1011 Disease & Society:our ContinuingýStruggle
This course provides a study of microbial diseases and how they have affected, and continue to affect, society. The student will be provided with the opportunity to survey major diseases and epidemics that have changed the direction of human events from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It will allow the student to better understand how disease continues to impact our future. By so doing, this course will provide health care practitioners with the knowledge and skill to better understand disease from an ecological perspective so that the delivery of health promotion services can be enhanced.