Engaging Biomedical Engineering in Health Disparities Challenges
Received Date: Feb 15, 2018 / Accepted Date: Mar 01, 2018 / Published Date: Mar 05, 2018
Abstract
Health Disparities (HD) are community-based, biomedical challenges in need of innovative contributions from Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. Surprisingly, STEM professionals demonstrate a persistent lack of HD awareness and/or engagement in both research and educational activities. This project introduced Health Disparities (HD) as technical challenges to incoming undergraduates in order to elevate engineering awareness of HD. The objective was to advance STEM-based, HD literacy and outreach to young cohorts of engineers. Engineering students were introduced to HD challenges in technical and societal contexts as part of Engineering 101 courses. Findings demonstrate that student comprehension of HD challenges increased via joint study of rising health care costs, engineering ethics and growth of biomedical-related engineering areas.
Keywords: Health disparities; Ethics; Undergraduate education; Societal impact
Citation: Vazquez M (2018) Engaging Biomedical Engineering in Health Disparities Challenges. J Community Med Health Educ 8: 595. Doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000595
Copyright: © 2018 Vazquez M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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