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| Title | Health and Health Behavior in a Life Course Perspective |
|---|---|
| Course number | 2486 |
| Programme | 0-Inte del av forskarutbildningsprogram |
| Language | English |
| Credits | 3.0 |
| Date | 2011-03-07 -- 2011-03-16 | Responsible KI department | Institutionen för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle |
| Specific entry requirements | |
| Intended learning outcomes | After the course, students will be able to: -critically examine research results with a life course perspective -Describe the contribution of conditions and experiences earlier in life as well as features of the social and physical environment, to health and health behaviors later in life -apply life course and health behavior models and concepts to their own research |
| Contents of the course | This course provides an introduction to the role of behavioral, psychological, social and community level factors in determining the health of populations. It will adopt a life course perspective, examining how conditions and experiences earlier in life may contribute to health and health behaviors later in life. More broadly, this perspective will focus on the interplay between human development and societal change in contributing to health behaviors and health outcomes throughout the life course. Guided by this life course perspective, students will learn to use relevant concepts, theories and methods from the social and behavioral sciences to better understand and analyze public health problems. |
| Teaching and learning activities | Teaching is conducted through lectures and group discussions based on selected readings, as well as classroom learning exercises. |
| Compulsory elements | Attendance and all course activities will be compulsory. Make up for absence due to unforeseen circumstances may be discussed with course leaders. |
| Examination | The examination contains two parts, presentation of group discussion and an individual writing assignment relating the course to the student¿s own research (approx 4 pages). Group discussions: The aim of these groups is to facilitate deeper exploration of one specific substantive area related to the course. Each group can decide how they will work. It is suggested that groups meet first to decide how they will work and, if necessary, divide the reading. They should meet two more times to discuss the questions they wish to explore, pool their knowledge and prepare a presentation for the entire class. Writing assignment: This should include a short presentation of the student¿s own research work in relation to the life course and health behavior concepts introduced during the course. The assignment can be written with the aim of using (some of) the text in the dissertation summary (=kappa). |
| Literature and other teaching material | Ahacic, K., Parker, M.G., Thorslund, M. (2007). Aging in disguise: age, period and cohort effects in mobility and edentulousness over three decades. European Journal of Ageing: 4:83¿91 Ben-Shlomo, Y. & Kuh, D. (2002). A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology: Conceptual models, empirical challenges and interdisciplinary perspectives. International Journal of Epidemiology, 31(2), 285-293 Bird, C.E. & Rieker, P.P. (1999). Gender matters: An integrated model for understanding men's and women's health. Social Science and Medicine,48(6): 745-755. Elder, G.H. & Kirkpatrick Johnson, M. (2003). The life course and aging: challenges, lessons and new directions. In Settersten (Ed), Invitation to the Life Course: Toward new understandings of later life. New York: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. Fratiglioni, L., Paillard-Borg, S., & Winblad, B. (2004). An active and socially integrated lifestyle in late life might protect against dementia. Lancet Neurology, 3, 343-53. George, L.K. (2003). What life-course perspectives offer the study of aging and health. In Settersten (Ed), Invitation to the Life Course: Toward new understandings of later life. New York: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. Krause, N., Shaw, B.A., & Cairney, J. (2004). A descriptive epidemiology of lifetime trauma and the physical health status of older adults. Psychology and Aging, 19, 637-648. Lynch, J. W., Kaplan, G. A., & Salonen, J. T. (1997). Why do poor people behave poorly?: Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse. Social Science & Medicine, 44(6), 809-819. Marmot, M., Siegrist, J., & Theorell, T. (2006). Health and the psychosocial environment at work. In Marmot & Wilkinson (Eds), Social Determinants of Health. Oxford University Press. Middleton, L.E., Barnes, D.E., Lui, L.Y., Yaffe, K. (2010): Physical activity over the life course and its association with cognitive performance and impairment in old age. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 58, 1322-6 Noar, S. M., & Zimmerman, R.S. (2005). Health behavior theory and cumulative knowledge regarding health behaviors: Are we moving in the right direction? Health Education Research, 20, 275-290. Shaw, B.A., Krause, N., Liang, J., Bennett, J. (2007). Tracking changes in social relations throughout late life. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 62B, S90-S99 Shaw, B.A., Krause, N., Liang, J., & McGeever, K. Cohort differences in long-term patterns of change in alcohol consumption among aging adults. Journal of Aging and Health, in press Shaw, B.A., Liang, J., Krause, N., Gallant, M., & McGeever, K. Age differences and social stratification in the long-term trajectories of leisure-time physical activity. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, in press. Additional material will be provided for the group discussions. |
| Number of students | 5 - 20 |
| Selection of students | Students will be selected based on their written motivation and the relevance of the course for their doctoral project. |
| More information | The course will be given Monday to Wednesday during two consecutive weeks, March 7-9 and 14-16, 2011. Lectures will be held at the Aging Research Center, Gävlegatan 16, 8th floor, Stockholm. One of the main lecturers of the course will be associate professor Benjamin Shaw from the University at Albany, New York. |
| Additional course leader | |
| Latest course evaluation | Not available |
| Course responsible |
Marti Parker Ej satt Marti.Parker@ki.se |
| Contact person |
Neda Agahi Institutionen för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle 08-524 858 10 Neda.Agahi@ki.se |
