Health Behavior and Chronic Diseases

4 credits

This course introduces health behavior concepts through applications to chronic disease prevention. The focus is on smoking, dietary behaviors, and physical activity and is organized around relationships to health, measurement, influencing factors, interventions, and translation to public health practice. Must be taken for a letter grade to be applied to the public health major. Renumbered from FMPH 110. Students may not receive credit for FMPH 110 and PH 110. Prerequisites: PH 40 or FMPH 40. Restricted enrollment to sophomore, junior, and senior standing.