This course is designed to introduce students to the study of factors that influence the health of populations. This course will focus on how to interpret common measures of population health, such as life expectancy at birth and measures of morbidity and disability. The course will look at the population health will be considered from a comparative and historical perspective. We will study the principal factors driving the massive health improvements of the past century, as well as some of the obstacles that have recently emerged. We will also discuss social relationships and health and the ways in which we affect each other’s health
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