Aug 31, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

HAX 644 - Ethics, Health Disparities and Social Justice


Examines aspects of inequality and health status as an injustice within the context of ethical theories (utilitarian, libertarian, deontological, equalitarian). Determines the influence on case studies of health disparities and inequalities. Discusses cases such as global and U.S. racial, class and gender disparities and in developing countries. Presents ethical issues relative to different methods of measuring health inequalities and related policies.

3 credits