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UGRC 110 Academic Writing I

Usage and conventions, percentages and proportions, sentence connectors, prefixes and suffixes; constructing an essay,  general principles, constructing a paragraph, paragraph logic, constructing a sentence; well –crafted sentences ,standard errors...

GSPH 467 Adolescent Health: Social and Behavioral Perspective

This course is designed to assist students to learn about adolescent social and behavioral environmental of adolescent health using theoretical frameworks based on contemporary theories and strategies. Students will examine how adolescent behavior impacts...

GSPH 465 School Based Nutrition Education

Nutrition, health and academic performance. The School as a vehicle for nutrition interventions. School-based nutrition interventions as a component of school health program. School-based nutrition education, nutritional status assessment of school age...

GSPH 463 Psychological Influence on Health

Health Psychology is an area that studies the social, behavioural, cognitive and emotional factors that influence the maintenance of health, development of illness and disease, course of illness or disease and client/patient as well as family’s response...

GSPH 461 Principles and Practice of Community Organization

Community involvement in the implementation of health interventions has become an important part of intellectual discourse. This course aims at providing a general understanding of the basic principles behind community organization for health. It is also...

GSPH 459 Intervention Strategies for Health Promotion

Health promotion interventions have become important aspect of health care provision in recent years. A number of health promotion programmes have failed to achieve their intended goals due to the fact that appropriate strategies were not put in place...

GSPH 457: Food Safety and Hygiene

Principles, science and technology of Food preservation, Food deterioration, food additives; food toxins, bacterial contamination. Food quality and acceptance; quality characteristics of foods and their measurement. Development of specifications and standards...

GSPH 455 School Feeding Programmes

History of school feeding, school health and nutrition recovery, school feeding as a nutrition intervention, school feeding to improve child cognitive development, school feeding and short and long term –food and security, designing school feeding...

GSPH 454 Mental Health as a Public Health Issue

The course will cover emerging and contemporary debates in mental health. mental health challenges facing both younger and older people, the influence of the life-course and life events on mental health alongside the development and significance of...

GSPH 453 Diet and Disease

Nutritional measurement, chronic diseases, epidemiology of chronic diseases, relationship between nutrition and chronic diseases, public health impact of nutrition in chronic diseases.

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