This course will explore the subject of human mental health and development in populations around the world, with additional emphasis on the role that development during childhood plays in shaping long-term health, illness, and well-being of both the individual and their societies. We will examine a collection of global health problems deeply rooted in rapidly changing social structures and that transcend national and other administrative boundaries. Although taught from a psychological perspective, this course is necessarily interdisciplinary. The class can be consdiered ideal for students wishing to explore a variety of subject areas with an eye toward their won possible professional trajectories - public health, anthropology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, and psychology - and to better consider the interrelated complexities of psychosocial, political, economic, and environmental factors that govern physical and mental health in our world.
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