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This course provides the student with a study of health disparities and promotion of health equity across a variety of disease processes. Advanced analysis and evaluation of theories, concepts, and methods related to health equity and disparity, will be examined. Students will have the opportunity to critically examine the links between health outcomes and economics, class, gender, sex, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Emphasis is on advanced discourse and analysis of health equity and disparity theory and research. The focus of this course will be on multiple levels of analysis from the practitioner-patient interactions to the health care system as a whole. This will include an assessment of the social determinants of health. Students will spend a substantial amount of time engaging in online scholarly discourse and in developing their own specific practice based clinical and research interests in this field culminating in an empirical paper and a conference ready presentation of their findings. Prerequisites: NR.210.601