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SOBS 672* MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH

This course will seek to provide an understanding of mental health care from a historical perspective, current management issues, government policy and legislation as they influence mental health care, mental health care reform initiatives, and impacts reform...

SOBS 668* MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING

This course will introduce students to the processes of early diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems and how this can significantly improve prognosis.  It will also introduce students to how public health agencies can incorporate mental health...

SOBS 652* SOCIAL ASPECTS OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

The course will critically examine adolescents as a special group of people in transition from childhood into adulthood. It will also explore their unique level of independence, which makes them likely to take decisions that could have adverse health...

SOBS 650 HEALTH PROMOTION AND PRACTICE

The course is designed to enhance the student’s knowledge of the basic concepts, principles and strategies of health promotion. It will provide opportunities for appropriate application of health promotion interventions in both changing and uncertain...

SOBS 648* COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH

The course will introduce students to beliefs, values, and ethics relative to mental health and illness and how this shapes the thinking of the general population. The course covers the balanced understanding of mental health and the development social...

SOBS 646 SYSTEMS OF HEALTH PROVISION IN GHANA

The course will present an overview of comparative health systems in developing countries with emphasis on the management of health programmes. It will examine the theoretical perspectives of health care provision with particular attention on the political...

SOBS 642 CULTURE AND SEXUALITY

The course will introduce students to the histories, theories and principles of human sexuality and carefully consider the changing notions of sexuality, masculinity, femininity, and personhood. It will examine how different societies in the past established...

SOBS 638* COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

This course seeks to examine the increased use of complementary medicine such as homoeopathy, acupuncture, reflexology in several developing countries. The course will introduce students to the following: the historical dimension of the development of...

SOBS 636 PLURAL MEDICAL SYSTEMS IN THE THIRD WORLD

This course seeks to examine the various regimes individual, groups and communities adopt to maintain and prevent illness. The course will allow students to learn the local and contemporary understanding of disease causation, recognition, treatment patterns...

SOBS 634 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD

This course will allow students to examine the various social, economic, and political changes that have taken place in the developing world and analyze the impact such changes have had on the health status of populations. The course will define development...

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