COM HLT 200A

Main Course

Community Health Sciences

Description

(Formerly numbered 210.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: one social sciences course. Basic concepts, relationships, and policy issues in field of community health, variability in definitions of health and illness, correlates of health and illness behavior, impact of social and community structure on health status, major contemporary approaches to health promotion and health education at community level. Use of comparative international perspective. Letter grading.