Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
NRSE 3540 - Poverty and Food Insecurity: A Learning and Doing Course for Health Professionals
This course empowers students with the tools necessary to improve health outcomes by addressing factors that contribute to food insecurity. This course introduces the ways in which health and illness are influenced by poverty and food insecurity. Topics will include an overview of social determinants of health conceptual frameworks, food policy in the United States, community strategies to address food insecurity, and a brief introduction to population health tools related to food insecurity. Students are expected to participate in a service experience within their community related to food insecurity.
Credit Hours: 1
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe the general pathways through which social, political, economic, and community factors influence food insecurity.
- Students will be able to explain how structural barriers impact social determinants of health and why they can be difficult to target with interventions.
- Students will be able to describe connections between poverty and food insecurity and explain how these contribute to health disparities.
- Students will be able to utilize population health tools to assess the food environment in a given community.
- Students will be able to utilize population level data to compare social and health conditions in a given community.
- Students will be able to ethically and professionally engage in a service-learning activity related to food insecurity.
- Student will be able to use critical self-reflection journals to evaluate their own feelings regarding food insecurity and poverty.
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