Men's health is a field that examines four broad areas: (1) conditions that are unique to men, (2) diseases or illnesses that are more prevalent in men, (3) health problems for which risk factors are different in men, and (4) health issues for which different interventions are required for men. Regardless of race and age, the life expectancy of men across the world tends to be shorter than that of women. For all but one of the top 15 leading causes of death, men have higher death rates than women. Female gender plays a critical role in determining and addressing women's health. Male gender is similarly important but less often acknowledged and examined in academic courses, epidemiologic research, or public health interventions and policies. In health research, men are often studied as though they are a homogenous group, despite men of different races, ethnicities and socioeconomic positions (SEP) having markedly different health outcomes.
This course will discuss the intersection of sex, gender, race/ ethnicity, SEP and health but focus on the implications for men's health. The primary objective of this one-semester, three-credit course is to provide a forum for preparing students to develop and implement research and policies to address the poor health of men, with particular attention paid to men of color. The course will require students to review and critically analyze issues in conducting research including or exclusively on men. The course provides students with a fundamental working knowledge of key concepts and theories, social and economic determinants of health, and contemporary topics relevant to providing a broad and comprehensive foundation for examining scientific literature and conducting descriptive and intervention research on gender within racial and ethnic populations in the U.S. and racial differences between men of different racial or ethnic backgrounds.
HBEHED622
Program Evaluation in Health Education
Fall
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Griffith, Derek
Prerequisites: Biostat 503 or equiv. and a course dealing with health education program development
Examination and application, through a series of exercises, of several program evaluation models relevant for health education, including the goal attainment, goal-free, systems responsive, and decision-theoretic models, with emphasis on both process and impact analysis. Design options for measuring program effect, with the associated threats and external validity, are discussed, and several basic statistical techniques are reviewed and examined in terms of their applicability to program evaluation, including sampling and sample size determination for both surveys and experiments.
HBEHED632
Racial/ Ethnic Health Disparities Research and Interventions
Winter
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Griffith, Derek
Prerequisites: N/A
The exponential growth in 'health disparities' research has led to considerable confusion regarding what constitutes health disparities research and how health disparities and minority health are distinct. The primary objective of this one-semester, three-credit course is to provide a forum for reviewing and critically analyzing basic issues in conducting research on racial and ethnic health disparities and to help students become educated consumers and producers of scientific work characterized under this umbrella. The course provides students with a fundamental working knowledge of key concepts and terms, historical events, and contemporary topics relevant to providing a broad and comprehensive foundation for examining scientific literature and conducting basic and intervention research on racial and ethnic health disparities, focusing largely, but not exclusively on the poor health of African Americans. Specifically, we will address the following core issues:
1)The strengths and limitations of the way in which we conceptualize, measure, and distinguish between core constructs (e.g., race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status/ position);
2)Determinants of health and racial and ethnic health disparities;
3)Key historical events that illustrate important lessons for health disparities research and practice; and
4)Intervention strategies to address racial and ethnic health disparities focused at the behavioral, interpersonal, community, health system, and national levels.
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