Course: Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements
Lecture Materials
Module Number: Title
» Lecture 1: How Do We Think About "Health"? (Kristin Mmari)
» Lecture 2: Health Status Measurement (Emily Agree)
Part A: Overview of Health Status Measures
Part B: Comprehensive Measures: SF-36 Medical Outcomes Measure
Part C: Specific Measures: Measurement of Physical Disability
» Lecture 3: Measurement and Use of Biomarkers in Population-Based Research (Christopher Seplaki)
Part B: Two Examples of Biomarker Application: Allostatic Load and Frailty
» Lecture 4: Conceptual Frameworks: Applications to Child and Adult Health (Henry Mosley)
Part A: Social Science and Biomedical Perspectives on Health and Disease
Part B: The Child Survival Conceptual Framework
Part D: A General Conceptual Model of the Multiple Determinants of Health in Populations
» Lecture 5: Conceptual Frameworks: Applications to Reproductive Health (Henry Mosley)
Part B: Maternal Mortality: The McCarthy-Maine Intermediate Determinants Framework
Part C: Perinatal Health: The Misra-Guyer-Allston (MGA) Integrated Perinatal Health Framework
» Lecture 6: Exploring Inequalities (Kristin Mmari)
Part A: Exploring Inequalities
Part C: Measures of Socioeconomic Status
» Lecture 7: Multiple Determinants of Health: Race, Racism, and Health (Henry Mosley)
Part A: Race in American Political History and Social Statistics
Part B: Racial Differences in Health in the United States
Part C: Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry from a Genetic Perspective
» Lecture 8: Multiple Determinants of Health: Sex and Gender (Henry Mosley)
» Lecture 9: Life Span Concepts: Demographic Transition and the Theory of Technophysio Evolution (Henry Mosley)
Part A: World Population Growth and the Demographic Transition
Part B: The Theory of Technophysio Evolution
Part C: The Demographic and Health Transition in Less Developed Countries
Part D: Concluding Overview: Frameworks, Time Dimensions, and Multiple Levels
» Lecture 10: Life Span Concepts: Developmental Origins of Adult Disease (Henry Mosley)
Part A: Evolution in Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Part B: Fetal Origins of Adult Disease - Barker Hypothesis
Part C: Mechanisms for Early Influences
Part D: Implications of the New Paradigm - Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease
» Lecture 11: Linking Behaviors with Health and Disease (Kristin Mmari)
» Lecture 12: Behavior Change Theories (Kristin Mmari)
Part A: Individual-Level Theories
» Lecture 13: Culture, Health, and Behavior (Kristin Mmari)