SOCIAL JUSTICE, HEALTH, AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Rosales et al discuss the challenges and opportunities in schools of public health. They believe that their obligation as a school of public health is to continuously look beyond traditional methods to address public health issues, as "the study of the behavioral determinants of risk behavior, using standard concepts and classical methods, may have reached their limit." Their intention is not to detract from the importance of traditional core public health courses and their content, but, rather, to discuss way's to expand student education and training to encompass other subjects--in this case, social justice--and other methodological approaches that are of significant importance.