About The CourseWelcome to the CoursePlus Web site for PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS (410.613.01), a course offered by the Department of Health Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Reviews studies on the roles of social and psychological factors, such as socioeconomic status, mobility, ethnicity, stress, social support, coping, and illness behavior, in selected health disorders and chronic diseases. Discusses factors in relation to disease etiology, recognition of and response to symptoms, seeking care, the doctor-patient relationship and communication patterns, compliance, the course of disease, and disease outcomes.
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- explain levels of analysis of psychsocial factors
- delineate prominent theories of behavior change
- compare measures of psychosocial factors
- describe and critique quantitative measures of social context
- analyze the relationship between behavioral factors and chronic and infectious diseases
- develop behavioral interventions for disease prevention and treatment
- develop conceptual models of behavior change
Warning: it looks like your connection to the course Web site or Internet has been lost. Please check your Internet connection. You should also copy any work you've done on this page into another document so you don't lose that work.