Unit
Topic
Themes

Region
Length

Empowering Global Citizens

SPH.4

The Health and Wealth of Nations

ICC: interpersonal (one’s own identity and culture, others’
identities and cultures, and empathy); ethics: commitment
to equality and commitment to supporting human rights;
geography; global risk: society and health; and investigative
and analytic skills

Uganda and global

Three weeks

Goals and Objectives

Learn to understand issues of public health, particularly the con—
nection between the health and wealth of nations, at the national
level; to understand, evaluate, and use indicators of public health;
to evaluate a public health issue through an in—depth case study of
an Ebola outbreak in Uganda; and to collect, evaluate, and present
information on a topic in public health.

Inspire in students a commitment to justice as it relates to public
health policies on a national level.

Evaluate the complexities of national health policies and their inex-
tricable ties with wealth through the use of public health indicators
and through presenting information on public health challenges.

Skills and Knowledge

Students will understand and articulate the connection between
wealth and health at the national level.

Students will evaluate and apply the use of national public health
indicators.

Students will evaluate public health challenges on a national level.

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