Principles of Population Health: Determinants of Health and Health Disparities
Introduction to population health science focusing on determinants of health, resource allocation, and health disparities.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the multiple determinants of health and what it means for such determinants to produce health and health disparities.
Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the optimal allocation of resources across health determinants for the improvement of health and reduction of health disparities and to understand how such resource allocation relates to fundamental economic principles.
Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the roles of socioeconomic status, behavior, medical care, and community on the production of health at individual and population levels and to appreciate the broad range of social determinants of health.
Demonstrate understanding of the different ways in which individual health and population health are conceived and measured, and how particular subpopulations often have special health considerations.
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).
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Topics
- Determinants of health and population health outcomes.
- Resource allocation and economic principles in public health.
- Social, behavioral, and medical determinants of health.
- Measurement of individual versus population health.
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- Applying population health principles to analyze determinants of health and resource allocation strategies for reducing disparities.
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