"Public Health 150 - "Contemporary Health Issues"
Lectures - Fall, 2011
Roger Detels, M.D., M.S., Instructor (detels@ucla.edu)
43-105 CHS, 10-noon, Mondays and Wednesdays
Teaching Assistants: Kaitlin O'Keefe (okeefek2@gmail.com OR okeefek@ucla.edu), office hour, Wednesdays, 9:00-9:50, room 73-318 CHS
Aritra Das (aritrargkmc@yahoo.co.in); office hour, Tuesdays, 12:00-12:50, room 73-318 CHS
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.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES OF PH150 - CONTEMPORARY HEALTH ISSUES
At the conclusion of the course, the student should understand:
The concept and importance of public health, not only for preventing disease, but also for assuring access and the tools to achieve a healthy community and healthy personal lifestyles
The population approach to health, which is the basis of public health
The scope of public health
The major disciplines of public health, their strategies, and how they contribute to assuring the health of the public
The major intervention strategies used by public health to promote the health of the community
The major health problems currently faced by public health in the United States and globally
Barriers to promoting public health and strategies to overcome these barriers
Interested in a degree in public health? Check out http://www.publichealthdegree.org/
Monday, September 26, "Introduction to Public Health" - (Dr. Roger Detels)
Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF) - updated 10:00, 26 Sept
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].
Reardon S. A world of chronic disease. Science 333:558-559, 2011 [click link].
Wednesday, September 28, "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 3, "Financing Health Services" (Dr. Paul Torrens)
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 6, "Biostatistics: How Numbers Matter" (Dr. Abdelmonem Afifi)
Lecture slides (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 10, "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].
Wednesday, October 12, "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, October 17, "The Impact of Demographics on Public Health" (Dr. Roger Detels)
Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF)
The decline of Asian marriage. The Economist , 20 Aug 2011.
Wednesday, October 19, "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]
Monday, October 24, "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 26, MIDTERM
Monday, October 31, "Non-communicable Diseases" (Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang)
Lecture slides (PowerPoint) (PDF) - Final version - uploaded at the end of class on Monday
Wednesday, November 2, "Health Education and Behavioural Change" (Dr. Dallas Swendeman)
Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF)
Monday, November 7, "Women's and Minority Health" (Dr. Dawn Upchurch)
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].
Wednesday, November 9, "Sexually Transmitted Diseases" (Dr. Peter Kerndt)
Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF) updated version added after class
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]
Monday, November 14, "The Implications of an Aging Population" (Dr. Steven Wallace)
Lecture slides (PDF)
Reading
The Commonwealth Fund. Health and aging in the 21st century.
Wednesday, November 16, "Nutrition" (Dr. Charlotte Neumann)
Lecture slides - updated 23 November (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]
Monday, November 21, "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 23, "Surveillance and HIV/AIDS" (Dr. Roger Detels)
Lecture slides - updated 22 Nov (Powerpoint) (PDF)
Monday, November 28, "Health Policy and Politics in the United States" (Dr. Tom Rice)
Lecture slides (Powerpoint) (PDF)
Wednesday, November 30, "Intervention Strategies" (Dr. Roger Detels)
Lecture slides - updated 30 November (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.
China to Spend Billions Cleaning Up Groundwater. Science 334:745, 2011.
Thursday, December 8 , 11:30-2:30 - FINAL
Review session: Monday, 5 Dec, 4-6:00 PM, room 43-105 CHS
Grading
Midterm exam = 33.3% of total grade if better than final
Final exam = 66.7% of total grade if lower than midterm; else, final grade only