Description
This course covers the behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of health and disease. Students learn how behavioral and social theories are relevant to health promotion and disease prevention efforts and in relevant to health promotion and disease prevention efforts in behavior-based safety efforts. They also learn how factors protect or erode health at multiple levels (including individual, community, societal, and global levels) and how interventions are developed to improve health by addressing critical factors at each of these levels. The course also addresses the roles of culture, race, and ethnicity in the conceptualization of health and illness.