JHSPH OpenCourseWare, Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Baltimore, MD 21205,

Description: Introduces and examines the basic prinicples which guide growth and development and the health of individuals across the lifespan, from the prenatal period through senescence. Presents methodological, conceptual and substantive issues necessary for understanding and evaluating empirically based information about growth, development and health at different stages of life and from different academic perspectives. Course covers several themes, including contributions of biological and environmental factors to health and human development, measuring the health of individuals in communities, understanding determinants and consequences of health and development across the lifespan, measuring population health and assessing the implications of health disparities.