Contemporary Public Health Issues

Catalog description

This course is designed to identify and analyze current prevailing critical public health issues facing the US population. The relationship between lifestyle and health as well as strategies for advancing individual and population health are examined. Topics addressed include health determinants, indicators, physical activity, overweight and obesity, nutrition, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injury and violence, suicide, food safety, environmental quality, vaccination, climate change, access to health care, chronic and infectious diseases and consumerism.