Lecture, four hours. Limited to junior/senior nonmajors and graduate students, with preference given to undergraduates in Public Health minor. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 120. Introductory course to provide students with broad and comprehensive overview of concepts, empirical research, and public health practice in community health sciences, with emphasis on social context and determinants of population health, and principles of planning interventions to protect and improve public health. Includes ways to define and measure health and illness, social construction of illness, social and behavioral determinants of health, and health disparities. Discussion also of social and behavioral theories of health-related behavior change, health promotion strategies and methods, advocacy, and public policy. Letter grading.