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Focuses on how current world-wide crises (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate variations, and the financial economic crisis) are causing the growth of social inequalities in both developed and underdeveloped countries and its consequences for health and quality of life. Analyzes social class, race, gender, and national inequalities and their reproduction through national and international policies. Emphasizes the relationship that exists between and among these different kinds of inequalities, and the increasing concentration of economic, financial, and political power and its consequences in the growth of those inequalities of health and quality of life indicators. Requires active participation of the students in the discussion of the issues involved.