Online Certificate Program in Women’s Global Health Leadership
  • Overview
    • About Us
    • Why Focus on Women’s Health?
  • Our Faculty
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    • Fall 2017
    • Spring 2017
    • Required Courses
    • Elective Courses
    • Special Topics
    • Syllabi
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    • Visual Archive
    • Audio-Visual Materials on Women’s Health
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    • Streaming Video/Media
    • Statistics
  • Women’s Health Activism
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Spring 2017

Impacts of Economic Inequality on Women’s Health (01:988:408)

Professor Christopher Nielsen

CBD Shelter inequality place significant numbers of people at high risk for health crises even as they are denied access to care. This course investigates the “pathogenic” aspects of gender and economic inequality; how systems of unequal resource distribution contribute to wide disparities of health risk, the best cbd dabs access to healthcare, and clinical outcomes; and how global trade and transnational migration affect real money pokies australia, healthcare delivery systems, and the availability of new casino no deposit.

Health Consequences of Global Trade in Food (01:988:412)

Professor Heidi Hoechst

Close to one billion people suffer from malnutrition and many more from food deprivation in the twenty-first century. As neoliberal trade policies have restructured national economies, new speculation in global commodities markets has limited access to food by the poor. This course investigates shifting modes of food production as local practices of subsistence agriculture have been replaced by export agriculture and global commodities markets. Students will compare the consequences of these changes for women as consumers in the global North as well as for women as producers of subsistence in the global South. It also analyzes the health effects of the creation of consumer markets for processed foods.

Gendered Professions and the Care Economy (01:988:414)

Professor Erin  Evans

Nursing lies at the heart of the “care economy.” Involving work that requires intensive physical labor, person-to-person communica­tion, and spatial proximity, the intimate nature of care work resists mechanization. In contrast to the production of commodities, the highly personalized labor of care is driven by human need rather than profit maximization. In nursing, skill entails the effective exercise of professional judgment. Focused on the cultivation and preservation of human capacities, this professional labor resists routinization and automation. The course explores recent efforts to heighten the profit-making potential of the care economy, and it considers the long-term implications of efforts to deskill and outsource care work.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

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