Unit
Topic
Themes

Region
Length

Fernando M. Reimers et al.

SPH.3

Mountains beyond Mountains

ICC: interpersonal (one’s own identity and culture, others’
identities and cultures, and empathy); ethics; geography;
economic development; poverty; global risk: society and
health; and investigative and analytical skills

Haiti, Russia, and Peru

Six weeks

Goals and Objectives

Learn to understand issues of public health in an in—depth way
through an analysis of literature and through connecting them
with a personal commitment to public health issues and to use the
contexts presented in Mountain: oeyono’ Mountains as case stud—
ies on the complexities of health issues and how they vary across
contexts.

Inspire in students a desire to promote public health issues and to
work to diminish the impact of poverty on health.

Evaluate public health policies and their impacts on the lives of
many different people.

Skills and Knowledge

Students will evaluate the personal story of a person committed to
poverty and public health issues.

Students Will explore the connection between poverty and health.
Students will compile, organize, and present information on the
variety of health contexts in Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Students will evaluate and explore careers in public health.

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