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HLTH 4401

Maternal and Perinatal Determinants of Health

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

The integrated genetic, physiologic and environmental events occurring in early life that impact pregnancy, fetal/infant development and disease risk throughout the lifecourse, with a focus on the mechanisms driving these events.

2026

Topics

  • Topics covered include embryology, fetal development, placentation, and pregnancy
  • development and function of key organs/physiologic systems that programme health and disease
  • states; reproductive technologies and preconception factors; major programming factors like
  • early life nutrition; toxicants; therapeutics and interventions directed to the mother, father
  • and/or offspring.

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): HLTH 2003 and HLTH 3302 or permission of the department. Lecture three hours a week.

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