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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Issues related to food and nutrition, including food safety, dietary supplements, phytochemicals, micro/macronutrients, microbial threats, and genetically modified food. Evaluation of nutritional risk factors in the development of chronic diseases and the role of nutritional medicine.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines health and disease in contemporary American culture and society with definitions, models, and practices of what has come to be known as "orthodox" or "conventional" medicine. Selected "alternatior "complementary" modes of promoting health and well-being includinghomeopathy, herbology, and chiropractic. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E172.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Considers social and economic aspects of health and disease in the United States. What are the proper roles of the individual, community, and government in improving health and health care International comparisons will be made wherever possible. Same as Planning, Policy, and Design 170.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. An assessment of developments in biotechnology potentially affecting various facets of human society, or warranting significant public debate. Covers the implications of genetic engineering and other biotechnological developments for public health, environment, agriculture, legislation, research ethics, public policy, and commerce. Prerequisites: Public Health 1 and 2 or consent of instructor. Same as Environmental Analysis and Design E112 .
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines factors involved in shaping public health and environmental policy. Topics include the role of science in public health policy, the function of governmental regulatory agencies, citizen participation, and economic and sociopolitical aspects of controlling infectious diseases and regulating carcinogens. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P182P.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Special topics courses are offered from time to time. Course content varies with interest of the instructor. Prerequisites: Public Health 1 and in some cases, consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines health-relevant beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors from a social psychological perspective. Topics include: self-control; obesity; sexual behavior; medication errors, stress, perceived control and social support; happiness and well-being; changing health attitudes and behaviors; self-disclosure and health. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P140H.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Role of behavior in etiology, treatment, and prevention of certain diseases. Behavioral intervention including biofeedback, stress-, pain-management, health habit counseling, and other skills to assist patients make cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes needed to cope with disease or achieve better health. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P141H.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines the physiological and sociocultural correlates of human pain perception. Emphasis on laboratory and clinical methods of measuring acute and chronic pain; social influences on the experience and communication of pain; biopsychosocial approaches to pain control. Prerequisites: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent; and any upper-division course from the Health or Pre-clinical Psychology areas. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P132H.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Core themes of Social Ecology are examined as they apply to major areas of health promotion research and practice. Students attend lectures and work collaboratively on team projects conducted in university and community settings. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Same as Social Ecology 131.
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