Public Health Implications of Modern Lifestyles
Fall & Spring
| 3 credits
| Elective
Majors:
Health Science
and
Public Health
This course will introduce some of the tools we use to understand and prioritize the public health responses in health promotion and preventive medicine. We will touch on different approaches applied to combat widespread and prevalent diseases of the present and future. The course will mainly focus on the literature of diet change, smoking cessation, alcohol reduction, and exercise; as well as look at the responses to different widespread diseases like COL, CVD, obesity and diabetes.
Instructors
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Morten Eiersted
Cand.scient.pol. (Political Science and Public Administration, University of Copenhagen, 2002). Editor at HIV-Danmark, 2003-2009. Research assistant at HIV-Danmark, 2009-present. With DIS since 2010.
