Health Administration (HADM) 326
Health Issues: Health and Healing

This version of HADM 326 closed May 25, 2004. To current version.

Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study with video component
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None
Precluded course: HADM 326 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for NTST 326.
Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies
Challenge for Credit: HADM 326has a Challenge for Credit option

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Overview

This three-credit, university-level course is designed to introduce the conceptual tools of medical anthropology. It will give students the opportunity to apply these tools to a consideration of the health status of First Nations people in Canada and of the role of medical pluralism in a culturally diverse nation state.

Outline

  • Part 1 Medical Ecology, Adaption, and Epidemiology introduces students to basic concepts in medical anthropology that will be used in Parts 2 and 3.

  • Unit 1 Medical Ecology
  • Unit 2 Epidemiology and Nutrition in Cross-cultural Perspective
  • Unit 3 Stress, Health and Healing

  • Part 2 The Practice of Healing and Health Care explores a variety of healing traditions from around the world and considers the ways in which these practices interact in a culturally diverse society such as that of Canada.

  • Unit 4 Paradigms and Therapies
  • Unit 5 Health Care in a Cuturally Diverse Society
  • Unit 6 Political Ecology: Global and Local Interactions

  • Part 3 Canada's First Nations Peoples focuses on the traditional healing practices of First Nations peoples, their historical and contemporary health patterns, and their relationships with Canada's formal health care system.

  • Unit 7 Early History and Current Health Status
  • Unit 8 Culture Contact and Epidemiology
  • Unit 9 Traditional Healing and Medical Reciprocity
  • Unit 10 Native Healing and Health Pluralism, Holism and Self-determination

Evaluation

To receive credit for HADM 326, students must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the final examination. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

Quiz 1 (after Unit 3)    10%
Quiz 2 (after Unit 6)    10%
Quiz 3 (after Unit 10)    10%
Term Paper (after Unit 10)    30%
Final Exam (after Unit 10)    40%
Total    100%

Course Materials

Textbooks

McElroy, Ann and Patricia K. Townsend. 1996. Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective. 3 rd. ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Waldram, James B., D. Anne Herring, and T. Kue Young. 1995. Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Other Material

The course materials also include a student manual, study guide, and a reading file.

Special Instructional Features

HADM 326 also uses videos that must be ordered from Athabasca University Library.

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice.
Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

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