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PHP 900 - Public Health Care Systems
Credits:
3.00
The focus of this course is on the pattern of services in
the United States and on the structure and function of their
component parts. It examines the impact on the system of a
wide range of external factors including social, political,
economic, professional, legal, and technological forces.
PHP 901 - Epidemiology
Credits:
3.00
Exploration of factors underlying the distribution and
determinants of states of health in various human
populations. Emphasis is placed on investigative techniques,
epidemiologic methodology, and disease prevention.
PHP 902 - Environmental Health
Credits:
3.00
This course offers a general introduction to the ecological
basis of health and disease. It applies the principles and
framework of ecosystems to human health problems associated
with environmental hazards, including toxic and infectious
agents that contaminate our air, water, food, the work place
and other special environments. Links between environmental
and occupational health effects will be explored within the
public health model. Policy required for regulation and
alternative strategies for prevention will be discussed.
PHP 903 - Biostatistics
Credits:
3.00
This course introduces students to the principles of
biostatistics. Students will learn through classroom
instruction, lab instruction and exercises, a variety of
statistical methods in public health. Students will review
measures of central tendency, rates, and standardization,
probability, sampling, hypothesis testing, comparisons, and
simple, multiple and logistic regression techniques.
PHP 904 - Social and Behavioral Health
Credits:
3.00
A graduate level course which provides fundamental concepts
of the behavioral sciences as they illuminate public health.
Since public health practice is the application of physical,
biological and behavioral knowledge to living societies, a
firm understanding of human social organization and behavior
is essential. Individual and community responses to
prevention, identification of symptoms, diagnoses,
treatments, chronic ailments and rehabilitation are
discussed. In each of these areas, the course explores the
interaction between community, family, patient, and health
care provider.
PHP 905 - Public Health Administration
Credits:
3.00
This course on public health managers, organizational
culture, management process, management functions & roles,
leadership, motivation, communication, and human resource
management.
PHP 906 - Public Health Finance and Budgeting
Credits:
3.00
This course reviews the manner in which public health
services are financed in the United States, including
sources and uses of such funds. In addition students will be
introduced to the vocabulary and tools of financial
management and budgeting, including financial statements,
basic accounting conventions, and the process of developing
and managing a programmatic budget.
PHP 907 - Public Health Policy
Credits:
3.00
An analysis of the public policy process, the development of
public health policy in the United States, and a discussion
of specific public health policy issues with international
comparisons. This course begins with an analytical
framework for analyzing the American political system and
process. It is followed by a general introduction to health
policy in the United States with examples of specific
policies and programs. Students will be asked to examine in
depth selected specific public health policy.
PHP 908 - Public Health Ethics
Credits:
3.00
This course examines selected ethical issues arising in
public health policy and practice and ethical dilemmas faced
by public health professionals, practitioners, and
researchers. Students analyze competing personal,
organizational and professional, and societal interests,
values, and responsibilities. Case studies apply different
models of ethical decision making and provide MPH students
with an added opportunity to explore and clarify their
values and those of their colleagues.
PHP 912 - Public Health Law
Credits:
3.00
This course seeks to provide the legal basis for public
health that is needed to effectively practice public health,
especially with respect to understanding and enforcing
compliance with public health regulations, and managing
public health programs and organizations. The course
introduces the core elements of law, legal practice and
reasoning, and illustrates their application and use in
public health.
PHP 914 - Public Health Policy Analysis
Credits:
3.00
Analysis of the public policy outputs from the perspectives
of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity by applying
analytical tools to public health policies in the United
States. This course begins by examining the major methods
used to examine health policy outputs. The perspectives of
effectiveness, efficiency and equity are used as a
framework for the course. Students read and critique
articles from health services research literature that use
previously learned methodologies.
PHP 920 - Social Marketing
Credits:
3.00
This course offers and introduces students to the vocabulary
and tools of marketing public health programs and services.
Expanding upon traditional principles of marketing and
consumer behavior the student will be exposed to the theory,
practice and challenges of marketing social change. The
course also explores the current and emerging issues related
to public health marketing.
PHP 922 - Public Health Economics
Credits:
3.00
This course gives each student a hands-on opportunity to
become familiar with a broad range of health economics
issues and analyses. The objective is to help its graduates
successfully compete for advancement in careers requiring
knowledge of health policy analysis.
PHP 924 - Policy and Practice of Community Health Assessment
Credits:
3.00
This course explores the process of community health
assessment as a tool for bridging the gap between public
health and the personal health care system. It provides an
historical perspective of using population based
measurements as a framework for health improvement
initiatives. It examines several community health assessment
methodologies including IOM, CIAP, PATCH, APEXAH, and VHA
approaches and explores the complexity of developing a
community-based health assessment.
PHP 930 - Climate Change and Health
Credits:
3.00
An overview of the climate system including its physical and
chemical compounds, the greenhouse effect, forcing agents
and dynamics at global, regional and local scales. Human
dimensions of climate change will be considered in light of
data and models. An environmental epidemiology framework for
analyzing the direct and indirect impacts of climate
variability to public health as well as appropriate public
policies, such as monitoring the greenhouse gas emission
reductions will be developed.
PHP 932 - Disease Ecology
Credits:
3.00
Students will have an understanding of the basic structure
and dynamics of: climate system, ecological systems, social
systems. Also gained will be the understanding of
epidemiological significance of co evolutionary processes
linking climate system with ecological and social systems
that influence the interaction between human beings and
disease agents and the understanding of the relational
significance of assessment frameworks including ecosystem
health, ecosystem services, environmental epidemiology,
epidemiological environment.
PHP 934 - Work Environment Policy and the Health of Workers
Credits:
3.00
Overview of occupational safety and health policy in the
U.S. Focus on the legal context, especially on OSHA, and
provides an anlytical framework for examining the role of
social, economic, and political factors in the recognition
and control of occupational hazards. Some attention to the
more technical aspects of this field (e.g., industrial
hygiene, ergonomics, general health and safety); emphasis on
understanding current occupational health and safety
policies and controversies.
PHP 940 - Public Health Nursing I
Credits:
3.00
In the context of history, standards, and research in the
field of public health and the roles to be played by public
health nursing in their situation. The framework is based on
the first three stages used in the scope of practice:
community assessment, diagnosis, and outcomes
identification.
PHP 942 - Public Health Nursing II
Credits:
3.00
Role and leadership: the remaining three stages of the
scope of practice is used as the framework of this course:
program planning, assurance, and evaluation. The function of
policy development and leadership roles such as project
management, case management, teaching and research are
developed as means for operationalizing this practice.
International implications for practice will be considered.
PHP 985A - Special Topics in Policy and Management
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Study of a special topic in Public Health Policy and
Management. Prereq: permission.
PHP 985B - Special Topics in Public Health Ecology
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Study of a special topic in Public Health Ecology. Prereq:
permission.
PHP 985C - Special Topics in Public Health Nursing
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Study of a special topic in Public Health Nursing. Prereq:
permission.
PHP 990 - Field Study
Credits:
3.00
This course provides a semester long opportunity to apply
core and concentration knowledge and skills to a particular
area of public health under the direction of a faculty
member and a community public health mentor. Permission
required.
PHP 995 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Directed readings and other activities to explore a specific
topic related to public health. Permission required.
PHP 998 - Integrating Seminar
Credits:
3.00
This course provides the opportunity for students from
various concentrations in public health to focus on a common
public health problem from their individual and joint
perspectives. This incorporates substantive, analytical,
administrative, and policy perspectives. Students make a
formal presentation of recommendations.