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2023-2026 Academic Catalog

MPH 7501 - Behavioral Aspects of Health Disorders

This course will examine current issues related to cognitive and behavioral foundations of public health specifically considering health disorders. This is a relatively new field of public health that emphasizes the mental, emotional, behavioral, and social factors that affect the onset, duration, recovery, and prevention of physical illnesses in society. It will focus on the contribution of social and behavioral sciences to the understanding of the distribution, etiology, and solution of public health problems. Frameworks will be examined in the content of multi-layered social systems and temporal processes of change.