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Health Behavior Over the Life Course

Are you interested in designing or implementing educational programs for specific age groups in the population? Do your talents include interacting and communicating with diverse groups of people? Are you interested in how research can influence the quality of people's lives? If so, then there are courses for you in the Health Behavior Over the Life Course area.

This area includes a number of courses that consider health behaviors as they relate to infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older adulthood. Multiple disciplinary perspectives (e.g., anthropological, biological, lifespan, psychological, sociological), social contextual orientations (e.g., family, neighborhood, health system) and intervention approaches (e.g., individual, family, community) are adopted so that students can achieve a comprehensive understanding of health and health behavior.

Students who take courses in this area will increase their appreciation of the vital role of human development and social and ecological contexts as they relate to health behaviors. Students also will gain an understanding of theoretical and methodological issues necessary for conducting health behavior research with different age groups. Career possibilities include health educators, physical and mental health researchers, and program planners who focus on different developmental periods in the life span.

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