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SOBS 632* HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

This course will be devoted to furthering an understanding of scientific relationships between behavioural principles on the one hand and physical health and illness on the other. The course seeks to explore the relationship between the mind and the body...

SOBS 624 AGEING AND HEALTH

The course introduces students to the issues of global ageing in general with reference to Africa in particular. This course also examines the impact of ageing on the structure and composition of society and its implications for the economy, health, and...

SOBS 614 EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH TO HEALTH COMMUNICATION

The course is designed to walk the students through the steps of a communication plan, which has to be based on good research. Students will expose students to the importance of having a plan in place before developing communication activities. Topics to be...

SOBS 613 COMMUNITY MOBILISATION IN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

This course is designed to introduce students to commonly used communication approaches at the periphery and help them develop community mobilisation plans. It will demonstrate to students all the necessary steps needed to achieve a successful community...

SOBS 611 BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE

This course will expose students to how health and development workers from different professional backgrounds can collaborate to address problems in the field. Also, students will be allowed to examine the bio-psychosocial approach to health and illness,...

SOBS 608 GENDER AND HEALTH

The course examines the interrelationship between gender and health with a focus on the socio-cultural, socio-political, and socio-economic constructs of gender and how these constructs affect women and men’s health in the developing world. It moves...

SOBS 604 SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS

This course introduces students to theories about the processes of interpreting and analyzing data. Students will be introduced to the concept of narrative, phenomenology, grounded theory and ethnography as the basis for qualitative data analysis. The course...

SOBS 602 IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH

Students will be exposed to the three cycles of implementation research: pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention. Pre-intervention includes community entry techniques, the various groups of stakeholders, stakeholder consultations, cultural and...

SOBS 644* SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT

The course seeks to expose students to social mechanisms that ensure the protection of children from vulnerability – diseases, hunger, poverty, child trafficking and child labour, sexual exploitation, child prostitution and natural disasters. It will...

SOBS 606* APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

This course focuses on the complex aspects of health, biology, the environment, culture, and human social relationships and actions. The course will adopt both applied theoretical research and explicit theoretical frameworks to study the social production of...

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