Healthy Urban Aging: Economic & Policy Issues

PUBH

646

Healthy Urban Aging: Economic & Policy Issues

Population aging has been named one of the major public health challenges we face in the 21st century by the CDC. This course examines key social, economic, and policy issues at the intersection of the changing demographics of aging, urbanization, public health. The disciplines of gerontology, public health, urban planning, and economics are beginning to communicate, and interdisciplinary exchange among those fields is growing. The course is designed to increase our knowledge of aging as it relates to urban public health in two basic areas: (1) the economic implications of demographic changes in the population, both nationally and globally; and (2) the policy implications of multilevel interactions of the elderly with neighborhood environments, the health care system and community-based organizations. How municipal and national public health policies respond to the challenges of healthy urban aging will have a critical impact on health care costs and quality of life for all.

Offer as needed

Graduate

No