"Public Health 150 - "Contemporary Health Issues"

Lectures - Fall, 2009

Roger Detels, M.D., M.S., Instructor (detels@ucla.edu)

43-105 CHS, 10-noon, Mondays and Wednesdays

Teaching Assistants:  Hozefa Divan, hdivan@ucla.edu; office hours 11:00-noon, Tuesdays, room 73-318.

                 Sanchita Mahapatra, raysanchita@yahoo.co.in; office hours 11:00-noon, Fridays, room 73-318.

 

NOTE: Lecture slides are uploaded to the class website as soon as they are received. There are occasions when they cannot always be posted in advance of the class.

 

Application Available for 2010 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program. This intensive summer program provides college students with an opportunity to work on health policy issues in a congressional office and to engage in original health policy research and analysis under the guidance of Foundation research staff.

College seniors and recent college graduates who have a strong interest in addressing racial and ethnic health disparities or who are themselves a member of a population that is adversely affected by racial and ethnic health disparities are eligible to apply. The application deadline is 5 p.m. ET on Friday, December 4, 2009. Application materials and more information are available online.
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/bjscholars/bjsapplication.cfm#%20

Monday, September 28, "Introduction to Public Health" - (Dr. Roger Detels)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF)

Reading

Preface to the 5th edition, In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 2009 [click link].

Introduction to volume 1, Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th edition, 2009 [click link].

 

Detels R. The scope and concerns in public health. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed, 2009, pp 3-19 [click link].

 

Smith JS.  The personal predicament of public health.  The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27, 2003 [click link].

 

Wednesday, September 30, "Epidemiologic Basis for Public Health" (Dr. Roger Detels)

Lecture slides  (Powerpoint)   (PDF)  

Capillary disease slides (Powerpoint)  (PDF) 

Reading

Detels R.  Epidemiology: the foundation of public health. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed, p 447-453, 2009 [click link].

 

Monday, October 5, "Financing Health Services" (Dr. Paul Torrens) 

No lecture slides - handouts provided in class

Reading

 

Whitted G.  Private health insurance and employee benefits.  In Introduction to Health Services, 6th ed, Williams SJ, Torrens PR (eds).  Delmar Publishers, Albany, NY, 2002, chapter 7, pp. 140-160 [click link].

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 7, "Overhauling the U.S. National Health Care System: Obama's Plan" (Dr. Gerald Kominski)

Lecture slides   (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Hartman M, Martin A, McDonnell P, Catlin A, and the National Health Expenditure Accounts Team. National Health Spending In 2007: Slower Drug Spending Contributes To Lowest Rate of Overall Growth Since 1998. Health Affairs 28(1):246–261, 2009. [click link]

Obama's health universalism: Remaking America’s health-care system. Lancet 374:357, 2009. [click link]

 

Monday, October 12, "Mental Health" (Dr. Carol Aneshensel)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Saraceno B, Freeman M, Funk M. Public mental health. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed, 2009, pp. 1081-1100 [click link]

Kessler RC, Berglund P, Demler O, Jin R, Koretz D, Merikangas KR, Rush AJ, Walters EE, Wang PS. The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder: Results From the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R). JAMA 289(23):3095-3105, 2003. [click link]

Kessler RC, Berglund P, Demler O, Jin R, Merikangas KR, Walter EE. Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Arch Gen Psychiatr 62:593-603, 2005. [click link]

 

Wednesday, October 14, "Biostatistics: How Numbers Matter" (Dr. Abdelmonem Afifi)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF)

Reading

Cumberland WG, Afifi AA.  Statistics for public health.  In Encyclopedia of Public Health (Breslow L, ed), chap 9, pp. 1148-1157 [click link].

 

 

Monday, October 19, "Occupational Health" (Dr. Linda Rosenstock)

Lecture slides  (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Rosenstock L, Cullen MR, Fingerhut MA. Occupational Health, in Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries.  Oxford University Press and World Bank, Washington DC, 2006; 1127-1145. [click link].

 

Levenstein C, Wooding J, Rosenberg B.  Occupational health: a social perspective.  In Occupational Health: Recognizing and Preventing Work-Related Disease and Injury, 4th ed.  Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000, chap 1 (part 2), pp. 27‑49 [click link].

 

Wednesday, October 21, "Emerging Infectious Diseases" (Dr. Roger Detels)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF)

 

Reading

Detels R. Emerging infectious diseases. In The Development of Modern Epidemiology, Holland WW (ed), Oxford University Press, 2008 [click link].

Heymann DL. Emerging and re-emerging infections. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed, p 1264-1276, 2009 [click link].

 

 

Monday, October 26, "Ethics" (Dr. Roger Detels)

Lecture slides (PowerPoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Kass N. Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed, 2009, pp. 383-392 [click link]

 

Wednesday, October 28, MIDTERM

2009 midterm key

Midterm results by student ID#

 

Monday, November 2, "Nutrition" (Dr. Charlotte Neumann)

Lecture slides (PowerPoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Neumann CG, Gewa C, Bwibo NO. Child nutrition in developing countries: critical role in health. Pediatr Ann 33(10):658-674, 2004.

Barker DJP. The origins of the developmental origins theory. J Intern Med 261: 412-417, 2007. [click link]

De Boo HA, Harding JE. The developmental origins of adult disease (Barker) hypothesis. Aust NZ J Obstet Gynaecol 46:4–14, 2006 [click link]

Popkin BM. The nutrition transition: an overview of world patterns of change. Nutr Rev 62(7):S140-S143, 2004 [click link]

 

Wednesday, November 4, "Determinants of Health" (Dr. Jonathan Fielding)

Lecture slides  (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Evans RG.  Introduction.  In Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations, Evans RG, Barer ML, Marmor TR (eds).  De Gruyter, New York, NY, 1994, pp. 3‑26 [click link].

 

Blum RW. Young people: not as healthy as they seem. Lancet 374:853-854, 2009. [click link]

Dayrit MM, Ambegaokar M. Leadership in public health. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed, 2009, pp. 317-332 [click link]

 

 

Monday, November 9, "Sexually Transmitted Diseases" (Dr. Peter Kerndt)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

Gavin L et al. Sexual and reproductive health of persons aged 10-24 years - United States, 2002-2007. MMWR 58:SS6, 2009 (summary). [click link]

 

Wednesday, November 11, HOLIDAY

 

Monday, November 16, "The Implications of an Aging Population" (Dr. Steven Wallace)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint)   (PDF)

Reading

The Commonwealth Fund. Health and aging in the 21st century.

 

Wednesday, November 18, "Health Education and Behavioural Change" (Dr. Virginia Li)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Ewart CK, Li VC. Increasing physicians' antismoking influence by applying an inexpensive feedback technique. J Med Educ 58:468-473, 1983 (summary). [click link]

 

Khan L, et al. Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States. MMWR 58:RR-7, 2009 (summary). [click link]

 

Wallack L. Media advocacy: a strategy for empowering people and communities. J Public Hlth 15:420-435, 1994.

 

 

Monday, November 23, "Environment and Health" (Dr. John Froines)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

 

Kriebel D, Tickner J, Epstein P, Lemons J, Levins R, Loechler EL, Quinn M, Rudel R, Schettler T, Stoto M. The precautionary principle in environmental science. Environ Health Perspect 109(9):871-6, 2001. [click link]

 

Wednesday, November 25, "Women's and Minority Health" (Dr. Marjorie Kagawa-Singer)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Wang S, An L, Cochran SD. Women. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 4th ed, 2002, pp. 1587-1601 [click link].

 

 

Monday, November 30, "International Health" (Dr. Roger Detels)

Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF)

Karim SSA, Karim QA, Detels R. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed, 2009, pp. 1193-1212 [click link]

Ong A, Kindhauser M, Smith I, Chan M. Global health agenda for the 21st century. In Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed, 2009, pp. 1713-1729 [click link]

"Telling Our Secrets" - Indian men who have sex with men

 

Wednesday, December 2, "Intervention Strategies" (Dr. Roger Detels)

Lecture slides  (Powerpoint)  (PDF)

Reading

Editorial: Public-health preparedness requires more than surveillance. Lancet 364:1639-1640, 2004.

Cottam R. Is public health coercive? Lancet 366:1592-1594, 2005.

 

Wednesday, December 9 , 3:00-6:00 pm - FINAL 

 

Grading                Midterm exam = 33.3% of total grade if better than final

                              Final exam      = 66.7% of total grade if worse than midterm; else, final grade only