Few topics are more controversial than nutrition. With new scientific findings published daily and discussed widely in the media, with vast amounts of media advertising about what food to eat and what supplements to take, with enticing food wherever we turn, and with a biologic environment that makes us hungry three times a day, how [...]
Archive | August, 2009
Opportunity of a Lifetime: Insights and Innovations in the Care of Children and Teens
What can be done now to set our children on the right track? This course, taught by UCSF pediatric specialists and surgeons will focus on a wide range of topics that pertain to children and teens and how intervention and treatment now can have major consequences for their future lives well beyond just their health. [...]
What’s Health Got to Do with It? Making Sense of Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform is back on the political agenda in Washington and in California. In this course leading health policy researchers at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies will serve as guides to health reform. What’s wrong with healthcare? How can we fix x it? How might we get care and pay [...]
The Bionic Man and Woman: Using New Technology to Stay Functional
Modern medicine continues to develop new technologies to preserve and replace faulty body parts. This course, taught by UCSF surgeons, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, dentists, and audiologists will teach about the latest in replacement parts and new technology to keep our original parts healthy that promise to keep us active and enjoying life as we age. Faculty [...]
What Can Be Done to Prevent Cancer Before It Is Diagnosed
Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, but what can be done to prevent cancer or at least to detect it early enough to improve treatment outcomes? This course will cover the latest updates in our knowledge of cancer prevention and early detection topics including tobacco use, dietary factors, environmental [...]
Global Health and Human Rights
Human rights are as essential conditions for individual and community health. This course outlines linkages between health and human rights and provides participants with practical knowledge to prevent and alleviate suffering caused by human rights violations. Using a health and human rights framework, faculty will examine a wide range of issues including armed conflict, torture [...]
