SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH BEHAVIORS      3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

(Slashed with SBS 74634 ) Overviews the social determinants of health and dynamic interplay between individual behaviors and community structures (systems orientation), including public policy, social and built environments, commercial messages, access to services, cultural norms, psychosocial hazards and poverty as causal effects that either provide opportunity or constraints to health. Also examines systems approaches to preventing public health threats from issues including substance use (alcohol, tobacco and other drugs), physical inactivity, poor dietary practices, unsafe sexual behaviors, violence and injury and mental health.