4.0

Average Course Rating

Provides students with conceptual tools to analyze health-related behaviors and the social, cultural and environmental context in which they occur. Applies concepts and theories from medical anthropology, psychology and sociology to programmatic examples from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America concerning care-seeking, treatment of sick children, insecticide-treated mosquito nets, voluntary counseling and testing, sexual risk behaviors, water sanitation and hygiene, environmental behaviors, and other behavior change challenges in public health.