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, which practically requires translational collaboration and teamwork. The course will demonstrate to students how physicians, social scientists and other professionals who have stakes in health needs to collaborate to solve health related issues. The course will enable students to appreciate public health problems more holistically and to assess the impact of socio-cultural dynamics on health seeking behavior.