UM SPH Academic Courses

EPID804 Population Health and its Determinants

Fall term(s)

2-3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Wilson, Mark L

Last offered Fall 2008

Prerequisites: permission of instructor

Description: This seminar, involving considerable reading, will introduce students to the emerging area of scholarship and research on the determinants of Population Health and its trends. The focus will be on patterns of health in populations seen from the integration of core findings on inequalities in health, race/ethnicity, community and spatial aspects of health, behavioral and psychosocial factors, lifecourse perspectives, stress biology, and policy/intervention. Thus the seminar will concentrate on multi-level approaches to important health issues. The course is open by permission of the instructors to participants in the Health and Society Scholars program, and advanced doctoral students in public health and other fields.

This course is cross-listed with SOC 595 in the LSA/Sociology department.

Syllabus for EPID804 (PDF, 235341 bytes, last modified on Monday, November 02, 2009 )

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