SIT Study Abroad: IHP Health and Community: Globalization, Culture, and Care
Explore how healthcare is accessed in four different countries and how health systems are influenced at global, national, and community levels. Compare metadata from epidemiology with health-seeking paradigms of ordinary people.
WHY STUDY GLOBAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY?
Healthcare practices differ widely around the globe, but health inequities—between economic divides, urban and rural—are increasing everywhere. Across four continents, compare healthcare systems and strategies, community well-being, and multiple factors affecting human health in different contexts, on both local and global scales. Travel to Washington, DC, India, South Africa, and Argentina, journeying from mega-cities to rural villages, to take a holistic, interdisciplinary look at how communities around the world define what it is to achieve and maintain health.
With this scope of experiences, you will learn to critically analyze some of the most pressing health issues of this global moment such as social inequities, chronic and infectious disease, climate change, and the economic drivers of healthcare. Through site visits and research training with an array of health practitioners, government officials, and activists, you will explore health at both individual and population-wide levels, and witness how positioning health as a human right impacts policy and health outcomes at all levels. Finally, you will explore the challenges all citizens face amid mounting obstacles to healthcare access, while strengthening your ability to understand, interpret, and compare the socio-cultural, ecological, economic, political, and biological factors that shape and predict human health.
MONEY MATTERS
SIT is an all-inclusively priced study abroad program – including academic costs, excursions, accommodations and meals, airport transfers, and health insurance. Be sure to discuss how study abroad costs are handled at your school with your study abroad advisor and read the website for more specific information.
SCHOLARSHIPS
SIT has awarded an average of over $1.3 million in scholarships and grants to SIT Study Abroad students in the past three years. All scholarships and grants are need-based. Awards generally range from $500 to $5,000.
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"Every day of the program provided another lesson, another moment of growth, and another moment of connection with people who are gracious enough to provide us with their knowledge and care. My life has not been the same since studying abroad, and I am beyond grateful for the challenging and wonderful experience I had with people who are passionate about enhancing their worldview through meaningful action and community-building."
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