Overview

The Health & Society BHS program at York University will challenge you to look critically at biomedical models and practices, to understand the complexity of health policy, to see ways in which globalizing economies shape both illness and health care. It will also help you to appreciate the role played by social forces and cultural change in shaping individual well-being. Our unique program draws upon concepts and tools from many social scientific disciplines to explore the ways in which social conditions influence health and how health concerns shape social relations and institutions.

Health & Society is a term used to represent a body of scholarship that has emerged over the past twenty years in response to the limitations of a strictly biomedical approach to health issues.

By seeing health in its social context, you’ll look beyond the limits of medicine as we know it, to a much wider set of questions that engage social, cultural, political and moral aspects of the human experience.
Our program moves beyond a strictly biomedical approach to health issues and investigates such areas as health and the family, disabilities and the role of the medical professional in society.

Possible Career Paths Include:

This program's broad interdisciplinary approach to health in its social context makes an excellent foundation for careers in the health-care sector, counselling, voluntary and private agencies, government, law, journalism, health advocacy, education or social work.

Community health/ health advocate
Healthcare worker
Alternative healthcare worker
Health administration, management, policy officer
Law/ teaching

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Health Controversies: Issues of Health, Illness and Society
Nutritional Anthropology: Food and Eating in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Anthropology of International Health
Humanities or Social Science General Education course
Natural Science General Education course
Courses outside the major

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-05 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-14 00:00:00
Starting 2027-05-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-09-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-02 00:00:00

More details

The deadline for Ontario high school students is January 15. For all other students the deadline is February 3.

Language

English

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88

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PTE Academic

60

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

90 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Toronto, Canada

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

Duolingo English Test

120

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TOEFL^® IBT

88

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60

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IELTS

6.5

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Official Transcripts (all students are required to submit official transcripts except those qualifying as Mature applicants or as Visiting Students on a Letter of Permission)

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Language Proficiency Requirements

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

41526 CAD / year

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Citizens or residents

8536 CAD / year

≈ 8536 CAD / year

Additional Details

Ontario residents: $7,443

Living costs

Toronto

Canada

1502 - 2563 CAD / month

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