Explores medicine as a complex health care system contributing to multifaceted disparities through its engagement with interconnected systems of inequality. Examines health inequities in the American healthcare system and its association with race, ethnicity, gender, age, and geographic location. Analyzes social determinants associated with healthcare disparities, such as access, quality of care, and use of technology on health outcomes and quality of life. Explores the lived experiences of health and medical conditions and healing through the useof humanistic sources. Assesses existing health policy and its legislative intent in relation to existing needs of under-served populations. Students learn how the maintenance of systems of inequality affects the health and health care of individuals and communities and asks them to think critically to uncover solutions to reduce health care disparities and inequity and promote preventive and primary health care.