Global Health Issues: Virgin Islands
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
Global Health Issues: Virgin Islands
February 27-March 7, 2010
2 Credit Hours: NURS 478: Global Health Issues: Virgin Islands
Program Fee: $1,225*
(Our program fees are based on costs in effect at the time of budget planning. Further weakening of the U.S. Dollar may require a surcharge to cover unexpected costs. We will do everything possible to control program costs as we monitor economic conditions beyond our control.)
*does not include tuition and RT airfare. See the Costs link left for more information.
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About this program:
Spend winter break in the sunny Virgin Islands, while earning 2 credits learning about Global Health issues. You will stay on the islands of St. Thomas and Tortola, and visit Virgin Gorda.
The Virgin Islands are an archipelago, part of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Sea. To the east, the Virgin Islands are administered by the United Kingdom. The archipelago to the west is governed by the United States. Experience both the British and American sides, and experience first-hand the differences in health care in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. This program is being offered to undergraduate students in the School of Nursing. Course work will explore contemporary issues in Global Health (NURS 478 Global Health Issues, 2 credits).
While examining the teaching practices at the University of the Virgin Islands School of Nursing, we will build in time to visit their private beaches, meet the local inhabitants, and enjoy the natural beauty of the Carribean.
Academics: This course explores contemporary issues in global health. Topics include health care systems, measurement and indicators of health status, emerging health problems in different countries, comparisons between developed and developing countries, and bioethics in international health care. Students will broaden and deepen their understanding of issues of health care across the globe.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the course, the student will be expected to:
- Conceptualize a health care delivery system that might equalize health care.
- Evaluate health resources on the Web.
- Compare and contrast developed and developing countries on specific issues related to health and health care.
- Analyze legal, ethical, and regulatory issues affecting global health care.
- Examine the variations in access, type and quality of health services between and within countries.
- Examine the migration of health care workers from developing to developed countries.
- Compare and contrast the availability and cost of health care resources across the globe.
- Compare social, cultural, environmental, religious, and political factors which influence health care.
Professor Jeanne McDonagh mmcdonag@emich.edu (ABOVE, LEFT) will direct the program and teach the course. She will be accompanied by Roberta Towne who will assist in the logistics of this Winter Break program.
Eligibility and Applications:
Students in good standing may apply to this program, although no more than 16 participants will be selected for participation. Applications are online, and should be downloaded, completed and returned to the Office of Academic Programs Abroad.
The nursing course and study abroad program become part of the student's Winter Semester of courses, and financial aid is applicable. For more information on costs visit the Cost page.
Director Jeanne McDonagh of Global Health Issues: Vigin Islands
Jeanne Mioduszewski McDonagh, MSN, RN, OCN, Instructor of Nursing at EMU, has taught for more than a decade at the University of Toledo, College of Nursing in Toledo, Ohio. She brings her 18-year expertise in Community Health Nursing to this exciting study abroad program that will look at Global Health Issues in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Jeanne is a certified oncology nurse and very active in local, state and national committees and is currently the president of the Ann Arbor Chapter of the Oncology Nursing Society. She has been an active volunteer for the American Cancer Society in an advocacy position and has been to Washington DC several times to meet with representatives.
Jeanne's interest in other cultures led her family to host several exchange students over the years and they have travelled to their student's respective countries to meet their families. She still communicates with her pen pal from Buenos Aires Argentina of 47 years and they met this summer for the first time in 40 years.
Jeanne has worked as an oncology research nurse at the U of M Medical Center, in Pediatrics at Mott Children's Hospital, and in home care, school nursing and the emergency room at Sewickley Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania. She was also Public Health nurse in North Dakota. From National Speaker for Schering bio-oncology to her awards for Excellence in Teaching and Service, Jeanne has exhibited a passion for excellence in the profession of Nursing.
For More Information:
Professor Jeanne McDonagh mmcdonag@emich.edu
or
Office of Academic Programs Abroad
103 Boone Hall
734.487.2424 or
800.777.3541
programs.abroad@emich.edu
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