Public Health 390A - Policy/Obesity Prevention&Mgmt
Fall
2019
01
3.00
Ning Zhang
TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
32497
Arnold Room 140
ningzhang@schoolph.umass.edu
This course intended to provide students with practical knowledge to understand obesity epidemics in the U.S., and an overview of federal, state, and local policy approaches and national initiatives for preventing obesity, promoting healthy behaviors, and providing care to obese citizens. There will also be extensive discussion of evidence for the impact of policies on child and adolescent overweight, including ethnic/racial and socioeconomic disparities. Students will be provided with an opportunity to develop an intervention targeting any perspective of obesity.
This class is open to Public Health majors only