| Course ID: | GRNT 7200. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Lifespan Health Psychology |
Course
Description: | The systems, structures, and behaviors that support and promote
health across the lifespan; focuses on health from pre-natal
development through older age from a public health perspective. |
| Oasis Title: | Lifespan Health Psychology |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in GRNT 7200E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. Interpret health in a broad social context and apply
definitions of health to five basic age classifications:
pre-natal period, infancy, childhood, adulthood, and older
adulthood
2. Evaluate basic disease states and health outcomes germane
to each of the five basic age classifications
3. Analyze the systems and contexts in which health is
promoted
4. Evaluate the scientific literature regarding pro-health
behaviors and disease outcomes in these age classifications
5. Develop, based on the evidence, public health guidelines
for the promotion of health behaviors for each of these health
classifications |
| Topical Outline: | I. Defining health from the public health and biopsychosocial
perspectives
II. Distinguishing “health” from “absence of disease” –
historical perspectives from Galen to now
III. Social factors relating to health: social justice
IV. Social factors relating to health: defining demographics
within a continuous variable: age
V. Psychological factors relating to health: health behaviors
VI. Psychological factors relating to health: behavioral
change and health promotion
VII. Biological factors relating to health: Biology of aging
VIII. Biological factors relating to health: Aging and
specific disease states (cardiovascular disease, Type II
diabetes, dementia, cancers) |