PMO 530 Social and Behavioral Sciences Applied to Public Health
This course examines how the behavioral and social sciences can be used to: 1) understand human health-related behavior and 2) guide the application of behavioral theory to change behavior and prevent, reduce, or eliminate public health problems. The first part of the course focuses on behavior-oriented perspectives from the health promotion/education, psychology, and communication disciplines. The remainder of the course focuses on important social determinants of health with an emphasis on applying health behavior theory to primary and secondary disease prevention.