BEHAVIOR CHANGE

Catalog description

This course provides a comprehensive overview of behavior change as it relates to public and personal health. The course includes content on lifestyle change and prevention and chronic disease management, with a focus on specific behaviors (i.e. diet and nutrition, tobacco use) and chronic illness (i.e diabetes, heart disease). This course will introduce students to the various theoretical models of health behavior change and how they relate to both individuals and diverse communities. Barriers and facilitators of lifestyle change and disease management will be covered, as well as the psychosocial predictors of behavior. Health related behavior change strategies including, but not limited to, topics such as physical activity, nutrition, stress reduction, tobacco cessation and obesity will all be addressed. The course will also include an introduction to the science behind multiple-risk behavior change and other future directions of the emerging field of health behavior change.