Spring 2008

Faculty: Leo S. Morales, M.D., Ph.D. and David E. Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D.
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research,
Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture, UCLA
924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 924
(310) 794-0663

Class time: Monday, Monday 2:00pm-4:00pm
Class meets at: 924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 730

Course Syllabus

Course Description

This course examines the measures and predictors of health for Latino populations living in the United States. Students will gain exposure to key demographic, psychosocial, and other individual-level factors as well as socio-political, community and health care delivery factors that influence health outcomes in Latino populations.  Methods for conducting research in Latino populations will be discussed.

 

Course Objective

Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to do the following:
(1) Describe the demographic, socioeconomic and behavioral-risk profiles of Latino populations.  
(2) Describe morbidity and mortality patterns among Latino populations including the Latino health paradox.
(3) Develop a conceptual model to guide the design and execution of health and health services research in Latino populations in the U.S.

 

 

Course Readings

Reader: To be purchased at the Course Reader Materials

 

Prerequisites

Students must have graduate student standing or be UCLA post-doctoral fellows. They should have a research project in mind on a topic related to the health of Latinos before the start of class. For example, the project may be a literature review on a topic of interest, it may be a new proposal idea, or it may be an empirical paper based on the analysis of secondary data. The data may be qualitative or quantitative. The project need not focus on Latinos exclusively. For example, comparison studies between racial-ethnic groups are acceptable.

 

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